Ask HN: Why the Href Inconsistency?

At the top of the HN front page the 'Y' logo links to 'https://news.ycombinator.com', but the 'Hacker News' title links to 'news' (expanded to https://news.ycombinator.com/news). Why is that?

From the page source:

* 'Y' logo - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com"><img src="y18.gif" width="18" height="18" style="border:1px white solid;"></a>

* 'Hacker News' title - <a href="news">Hacker News</a>