I'm grateful it's not traumatizing like Jamie Zawinski's HN redirect.
Macwright.com redirects HN readers away
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#62If you open it incognito, you can read the actual post.
try { if (document.referrer) { const ref = new URL(document.referrer); if (ref.host === 'news.ycombinator.com') { window.location.href = 'https://google.com/'; } } } catch (e) { }
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#63I agree with all of that. The defensiveness that comes with writing for HN (and Twitter) makes me a worse writer too. It's not just about being careful and precise, but about being super defensive to avoid the most uncharitable possible reading. Perhaps more unfortunately, I find that writing for academic conferences and journals makes me a worse writer too. It's different, but having to laser focus on 'selling' the…
I love the HN crowd for the intelligent discourse. It reminds me of reddit in its heyday. But goddamn, I've never met a crowd as critical and prone to buzzkill. Everyone's so damn serious here.
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#64I'm lucky enough to have met Tom. So much of his writing and online persona made a lot more sense to me having had that experience.
He's a really excellent person, and I'm glad he does the things he does.
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#65He should redirect to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacWrite as HN would easily get distracted.
I 100% started reading that entire article until I remembered how I got there and snapped out of it. I love it.
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#66I agree with all of that. The defensiveness that comes with writing for HN (and Twitter) makes me a worse writer too. It's not just about being careful and precise, but about being super defensive to avoid the most uncharitable possible reading. Perhaps more unfortunately, I find that writing for academic conferences and journals makes me a worse writer too. It's different, but having to laser focus on 'selling' the…
I love the HN crowd for the intelligent discourse. It reminds me of reddit in its heyday. But goddamn, I've never met a crowd as critical and prone to buzzkill. Everyone's so damn serious here.
I find the culture (very generally speaking) to be an odd mix of intelligence, knowledgeability, humorlessness, and immaturity.
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#67I'm grateful it's not traumatizing like Jamie Zawinski's HN redirect.
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#68If only I needed to run his childish JavaScript.
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#69Things I learned today. Apparently, opening a link in a new tab doesn't set the referring host domain. [discovered by, opening story in a new tab and wondering what the author meant]
When I command-clicked the link it opened in a new tab and redirected. I'm using Brave on a Mac, FWIW.
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#70He needs to block this at the server level. JS isn't going to work for a good portion of the HN crowd.
I've got a script on a few of my sites. Initially, the redirect is off. If it passes 100 incoming hits from HN in an hour, I assume it's on the front page. Then I just do some messy scripting to re-enable the script for a few minutes every hour. One minute on, seven minutes off. That sort of thing. Basically, the goal is to redirect the maximum number of people, and you can't do that if it redirects everyone. No, I won't be sharing these scripts with anyone but mostly because they're all terrible kludges that do not deserve to see the light of day.