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Comment by rms | Hacker News Reader

Well played, anonymous hacker. I even respect your lack of political posturing.

For when this gets fixed, right now techcrunch.com is an empty html page that contains <a href="http://nottherealurl.com/ title="rapidshare downloads">rapidshare downloads</a>

Edit: now it is a blank html page that contains only "hi". Someone from HN rehacked it? Or it's about to be fixed.

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Either they've been hacked again, or they're really onto it now. The page is now blank with the text: "We'll be back soon."

I saw "We'll be back soon." page once when I submitted comment on one of he article.

It was linking to dupedb .com when I looked a minute ago. Now all I see is text saying hi

Before that, it (automatically redirected?) was some affiliate link. I came page to the tab to see 'this offer is not available in your country'.

Looks like it's switching around depending on what backend their load balancer throws you to. It's jumping around for me, which suggests they don't have any session affinity. Interesting, but I guess it's not required for their kind of app.

site, for their kind of site.

These days, that's a distinction without a difference. All websites that couldn't usefully be delivered as PDFs are applications by definition.

Techcrunch could be delivered as a PDF. I get it on my Kindle.

Just as most new web sites are not startup companies, most existing web sites are not apps.

The distinction and difference is that a software application helps a user perform manipulation or transformation of data as useful work.

Most websites, despite simple interactivity (e.g. search), are still published as "content" for consumption within a content access application, not for manipulating work|play|creative output.

And the comments on the posts are built into a PDF?

Who reads TechCrunch comments? they're worse than youtube, at least youtubers are not self-promoting.

The line between those two words blurs more every day

A hack for the sake of hacking - gotta respect.

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