Maybe it's just an effort to reduce the HN death hug, and every git repo is an identical clone after all, yet I can't help but think that a link to the kernel tree should point to [0].
Github is (and never was) the only source of truth. It (sort of) became because of us.
Replace this with Operaring System, Social Network, default Win 95 browser, any commonly accepted belief.
[0] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...