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Maybe there's a reason, but why is this linked to webcache, and not jwz? Is this a common practice?

edit: on topic, liked the article, thank you.

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Because if you link to jwz's site directly from HN, you'll get redirected to this :)

http://imgur.com/32R3qLv

Ahah nice.

Currently it links directly to the article, which is unfortunate. Could an admin maybe change it (back?) to use a webcache or a url shortener?

(I know it is HN's policy to link only to the main URL, but I consider this referrer-sniffing to be a bug on jwz.org, or a failure condition like when the site is out of service due to traffic. In those cases, cache links are posted here frequently.)

JWZ doesn't like an HN referrer and serves an image instead of the content.

Wow that is really odd. You'd think HN would be his kind of crowd (or at least I would think that). Does he have something against YC?

Look at Mozilla's manifesto [0] and compare that to what many YC companies are doing. It's all about centralization and commercial profit.

[0] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/

I dunno if I'm representative of HN but I consider YC mostly orthogonal to HN. I don't care about what YC does, but I find the stories and comments of HN valuable regardless.

I think, according to jwz's tweets [0][1], he has a different opinion and sees HN as a community with a distinct ideology he does not want to have on his blog. Personally I I think he has a point there - whenever YC and politics is involved this community can become quite one-sided. See for instance the discussion about Thiel's donation to Trump.

[0] https://twitter.com/jwz/status/665658278509084673

[1] https://twitter.com/aaronbrethorst/status/657373602405154816

I would hesitate to use anything written by the current Mozilla Foundation as clues to what someone who left the organization in 1999 thinks.

Source of the 1999 date: https://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nomo.html

I don't know if this counts as an explanation, but: https://twitter.com/jwz/status/665658171415859200

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