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It't a good thing HN doesn't have URL length restrictions, because that URL uses 403 characters to represent a URL that is 82 characters long.

What the heck!? You're right. That's crazy. I wonder why the web framework designer thought that was necessary.

Most of it is link tracking for newsletter distribution. You can remove it and shorten it to [1] without any impact

Interesting

Codeship Founder here. @op: Where did you get the link from? I'm curious if it's our newsletter because then we would fix the URLs.