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dang | karma 18142 | avg karma 0.25 · 2022-07-09 23:42:58

It did, but our software replaces URLs with canonical URLs when it finds them. I didn't realize this was having the effect of stripping Wikipedia anchors. We may need to make an exception for those.

yjftsjthsd-h | karma 28510 | avg karma 2.78 · 2022-07-10 01:49:33

Is there a public list of HN's special cases? Like how GitHub repos are listed by user path, I think some sites show subdomains, if there are URL patterns that do or don't get stripped off submissions. Would be interesting to read if it's not sensitive.

teddyh | karma 23902 | avg karma 2.94 · 2022-07-10 07:59:11

For a similar list, see the Public Suffix List: https://publicsuffix.org/

(I suggested 7 years ago that HN should use it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8909146#8911044)

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dang | karma 18142 | avg karma 0.25 · 2022-07-10 16:41:21

No, I'm afraid it would be way too much work to publish and maintain such a list, so the question boils down to asking "is the code public", and I'm afraid it isn't.