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That's not hotlinking, that's just linking. Hotlinking refers specifically to embedding content (e.g. an image or iframe) from another host.

JWZ, despite being one of the main engineers at Netscape, does not seem to know what hotlinking means, and is (a) happy to break the web, and (b) happy to look like an asshole by making penises pop up on random people's computers because they didn't know "don't click a link to this random dude's site from HN".

HN mods, any chance of disabling autolinking for JWZ sites?




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