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Comment by swang | Hacker News Reader

don't bother to link to jwz from hn since he redirects you to (what i guess is) a nsfw image

Off topic, but for anyone curious what that image is without clicking: it's a hairy testicle in an egg cup. The title reads "Hacker News" and the caption is "A DDoS made of finance-obsessed man-children and brogrammers".

I find that description inaccurate. Users here aren't all obsessed with finance.

The form is debatable, however their critique is not completely wrong. The diagnosis that at least a vocal part of the crowd here is finance-obsessed fits my experience.

More generally, some of the people I regularly interact with face-to-face are strongly focused on how they can use things for their financial advantage, while others aren't. Some even want to speculate with cryptocurrencies, which I consider gambling. I don't yet understand what explains the difference. Maybe a fear of running out of money to meet existential needs?

Anybody any ideas what makes seemingly very intelligent people so obsessed with money?

Money is the metric some (I'd say most if not all) very competitive people choose to compare themselves to others. After school it's pretty much the only objective metric.

As tech has very high salaries even for entry-level positions those people tend to come to tech and then find their way to Hacker News.

To get around this you can disable the inclusion of the referrer. In firefox set `Network.http.sendRefererHeader` to `0` in about:config. Of course this only lets you avoid it. But, yeah, I agree. That's pretty rotten behavior and worth avoiding linking there.

Or you can just copy paste the link.

I remember see this once before from his blog. Why is he such a dick to HN? Does he have a post about it? (and I guess archive.is link it to avoid the egg testicle).

Personally, I right-click and use "Open in Incognito Window" in these sorts of situations. I assume Firefox has an analogous feature.

I was under the impression browser doesn't send referrer when using https. Was it always like this?

The default referrer policy is "no-referrer-when-downgrade", so it won't send a Referer header to a "less" secure destination (HTTPS -> HTTP), but it will send one to an "equally" secure destination (HTTPS -> HTTPS).

Websites can override this though. For example, HN could send a "no-referrer" directive to prevent any Referer header being sent.

More information: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re...

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