HN Link Access Issues

Users report and troubleshoot problems accessing links submitted to Hacker News, such as redirects for HN referrers, URL modifications by HN, and broken previews, often recommending the 'web' link or copy-pasting URLs.

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Sample Comments

soheil • Aug 13, 2021 • View on HN

Please try another URL, maybe a blog post, etc. It doesn't seem to like HN very much.

Igor_Wiwi • Dec 31, 2024 • View on HN

ironically it doesn't work for HN main page

adamgins • Aug 15, 2024 • View on HN

weird... I pasted the URL in, but HN seems to have modified it???

trimbo • Sep 30, 2019 • View on HN

The 'web' link hacker news supplies worked for me (in incognito)

cheeaun • Dec 23, 2013 • View on HN

I've mentioned this issue here https://github.com/HackerNews/HN/issues/48

Anechoic • Sep 15, 2010 • View on HN

That link just goes to a empty HN page

NithurM • Feb 19, 2022 • View on HN

Quick preview of links submitted to HN? what's bad about them?

jxf • May 13, 2014 • View on HN

This link seems to be breaking the HN comments for this page. :)

minimaxir • Jan 7, 2021 • View on HN

The rare case where Hacker News's URL normalization has extra benefits!

eridius • May 10, 2018 • View on HN

Use the "web" link that you see under the headline here on HN.