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Comment by amarcheschi | Hacker News Reader

if you don't want to open twitter, here is xcancel link which i should have put as the og link https://xcancel.com/SollenbergerRC/status/189560929481046439...

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Or just setup Redirector* to automatically redirect you to xcancel (and old.reddit.com, and away from whatever other hostile websites there are these days...)

* https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector

Cool

The first thing I wondered is why you'd post this information on Twitter of all places, to be honest.

because they have followers there and it won't get taken down? Sometimes you have to make a deal with the devil

> Sometimes you have to make a deal with the devil

Does “engagement” justify the means?

HN’s policy is that one should submit the original link, hence providing a more accessible but not original link as a comment is the correct thing to do.

I may be wrong, but I feel that the gist of posting the direct source is to avoid websites reporting a news regarding that source.

Such as, amd announcing new graphics card and a blog making a post about it. And it is understandable that it would be better to post amd own's page.

I would be curious about dang opinion on posting non og link that only contain the og source repackaged in a more accessible way

It’s also to automatically deduplicate submissions of the same source.

And HN does for example block archive.is for submissions, to which your argument wouldn’t apply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37130177

You can email hn@ycombinator.com to ask about the policy.

Oh ok, it is quite useful for disambiguation. I get that

To add a bit to what layer8 correctly said: it's also for displaying the original provenance of the article (i.e. the domain it came from), and for making the /from pages that list submissions from a domain work properly. That may not matter when there's just one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=twitter.com/sollenber...

but it does when there are lots:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=twitter.com/karpathy.

Ah, many thanks for that tip

Also superior since I can see the replies.

finally, a nitter replacement

It's just a copy of nitter on a different domain.

I hadn't seen one since X took over

Poast runs one

https://nitter.poast.org

it does look like nitter but I thought it was dead after twitter changed the api after musk took over?

It’s a nitter instance

https://status.d420.de/

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