Interesting, the redirect works on all the news.ycombinator.com/PATH urls except /user
Hackernews.com
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#162For a moment I thought this was going to be a version of the site with megabytes of javascript, 50+ third-party tracking/ad network/analytics scripts, facebook/twitter/reddit "share" links, a cookie consent dialog allowing me to accept all or "manage my preferences", autoplaying videos about an unrelated story on each page, a sidebar with thumbnails + clickbait headlines that distracts from the main content, and a po…
"the" hacker news?
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#163host.io shows 65 other domains that re-direct to ycombinator.com. Can't search specifically for ones that re-direct specifically to news.ycombinator.com afaik https://host.io/ycombinator.com Particularly enjoyed ireallylikechicken.com that redirects to an HN thread talking about squatting that domain
yc.run and yco.mba redirect back to https://bookface.ycombinator.com/
phoenixbenchmarkingtruth.com links to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22894191
c47jl.tk and fa26j.tk links to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3539792
ycfounders.com, ycombinator.org, ycombinator.net, ycombinator.org are AWS S3 static sites
hacker.news and yc.run return CloudFront headers
The servers serving the redirects run the gamut of Google GCP, Google Registrar, AWS Global Accelerator, AWS S3, Dreamhost, Uniregistry, Cloudfront, Gandi, Fastmail, and more
Registrars include Namecheap, Gandi, GoDaddy, Google, NameSilo, Wild West Domains, Global Domains International, Key-Systems, PDR Ltd, NameSilo, ENOM, Tucows, Dreamhost
Most of those are probably not YC-owned, but if people are using them expecting to get to YC, it's a very large attack surface. It's probably a safe bet that one or two registrar or hosting accounts could get popped and redirect traffic through a malicious site and then onto the real site without anybody noticing. I know a few of those registrars don't check for identification before they accept a zone transfer. I'd also bet most of the hosting and registrar accounts don't have MFA enabled.
Re: Hackernews.com
#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
We'd need a compelling reason to do a major surgery like that. It's possible to imagine scenarios, so it's great to have the option, but I think it would be a mistake to exercise it just-because. I say that for at least two reasons: (1) users hate change; and (2) the feedback loops between HN and YC are vital to both, so it would be bad to weaken them.
If I might suggest a major: (3) breaks SEO for potentially a very long time causing HN to fall out of search results to common queries on the major search engines. (I'm aware of site move tools and 301's, but we almost always see some decline on a domain switchover that takes time to recover)
Would that really be such a bad thing? I don’t imagine HN sees much traffic from search.
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#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's been my primary motivator behind "I read it online/on a forum," vs "I read it on news DOT why combinator DOT com." The other reason is that I'd prefer not to navigate the conversation toward "why I'm on a website with 'Hacker' in the name." That's a separate issue for which I am ill-equipped to discuss, given the mainstream connotation.
I just say Reddit.
Realistically too, a lot of the content on Hackernews is also on Reddit. However the difference a lot of the time is the intelligence level in the comments can vastly differ. I find Hackernews is where you come for a less political, more logical set of opinions on different articles. The nerdier version of reddit.
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#166I use https://hckrnews.com/ for Top 10 filtering.
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Does spoofing your user-agent bypass that?
You probably can't spoof the DRM.
I think that is because there is actually DRM technology in the browser that communicates with Netflix when on their site. So it's definitely a lot more than just checking a UA. But it would be nice if it were that easy.
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#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
We'd need a compelling reason to do a major surgery like that. It's possible to imagine scenarios, so it's great to have the option, but I think it would be a mistake to exercise it just-because. I say that for at least two reasons: (1) users hate change; and (2) the feedback loops between HN and YC are vital to both, so it would be bad to weaken them.
That's really interesting, that you take advantage of symbiosis between the YC and HN functions. Have you ever published or written about the relationships and benefits to each? I'd be fascinated to read more. I'm sure some of it is completely obvious and some much less so. Curious to hear what would surprise me.
I don't know if this counts, but I did write https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23285793 a while back.
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What's your viewpoint on thehackernews.com?
It irritates me. It's clear that some people confuse it with HN and that sucks. There's even an example in this thread. YC owns Hacker News as a registered trademark. I don't know if that means we could do something about it. Assuming we could, I don't know if that means we should.
That's kind of the point of a trademark, and you'll want to talk to an IP lawyer about it. It's important to distinguish the three vastly different types, but trademarks are the one that requires you enforce it, or lose it. (I'm not a lawyer.)