They work in the one I use: “Octal” for iOS

There's no "the" HN app - only a bunch of different third-party projects. If one isn't working, there are plenty of others out there to try.

Works in MiniHack on iOS (unofficial)

Apart from broken links, what is the benefit of using an app other than the web browser to peruse HN on mobile?

works on Materialistic for Android

> I was going to make a blockchain joke, but it was already in the linked discussion.

I see what you did there. Nice.

Also, I had to look up "underpants gnome". For the other three of you who don't know what these are they feature in an early episode of South Park (which I thought I'd seen all of, but no). They steal underpants and use them to profit. Turns out they're also the originators of the "1. Something, 2. Something else, 3. ?????, 4. PROFIT!" meme that I've seen posted for the last 20 years, particularly on Slashdot in the early noughties, but never known where it came from.

Not something I expected to learn via HN but I suppose we are living in unusual times.

This is enough to be FU money for all people involved: "I'll disappear, pay off police, blame Ali, do 4 years in jail and still have money..."

Yes, I don't see how blockchain technology will solve a problem like this in any way whatsoever. No entry in a blockchain and labelling thereof on containers will prevent breaking the seals on a contain and swapping out real for fakes.

Blockchain may be able solve a few different problems, but this isn't one of them.

NFT that cuprum!