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Comment by j2kun | Hacker News Reader

Why is this linking to the wayback machine? This blog post is live on the same website at the same url.

https://gregable.com/2010/09/why-you-should-know-just-little...

Yeah, that's bad. It's important to use the canonical URL, among other reasons so the site name shows up correctly. Changed now.

ingve is an excellent submitter who doesn't normally do that, so I'm sure there was some reason.

Some people link to archive.org to future-proof against dead urls.

That’s kinda backwards. One should point to the source and if that is no longer available then fire up the Machine.

In this case the archive.org link is a 403 for me while the original works.

I suspect you misunderstand some of the point.

When you make a posting on HN or anywhere else and cite a URL, that URL could go down years later. Your historic posting then has a dangling URL. You can't go back and edit old postings to fix it.

Also, some content changes. The URL is valid, but the cited material is not there. With the archive, you can point to a specific date when that was retrieved.

I get a 403 as well, no point in linking to something unaccessible just because reasons. Gdpr is hard but people in Europe should not be denied access just for the sake of immutable URIs

Wait what? https://web.archive.org is inaccessible to you because you are European? FWIW: I am European, and it works for me.

I like what Firefox does where if a site 404s it checks to see if there is a Wayback Machine snapshot for it and automatically loads it.

Firefox doesn't do that. An extension to Firefox does.

it's kind of rude, it's a bit like Google showing large snippets in the web search results so that users never have to leave google.com

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