Ask HN: Why can I not open this HN link?

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So i decided to find the highest point stories on HN[1] and came across this[2]. Why can i not open it ? [1]:https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byPopularity&prefix=false&page=0&dateRange=custom&type=story&dateStart=715305600&dateEnd=1577059200 [2]:https://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=b3rV0rfs0vjJ7EZ4FASrjm&fnop=error-msg

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Because that's a continuation, a page that was generated on the fly as a result of what the user was looking at at the time. It has since expired.

Probably because it uses a flaw in the HN software that has been fixed since? (You can still access the comment section and see some discussion about it)

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