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> to be perfectly honest these people don't seem mentally well

Please don't cross into personal attack and please don't do internet psychiatric diagnosis on HN. It only makes things worse.

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Looking at the HTML for the blog post section of the site, it's not what's advertised, or they haven't implemented it yet as it's just the Google redirect.

    <script>document.referrer.startsWith("https://news.ycombinator.com")&&(console.log("Hacker News is becoming worse than 4chan. Do better."),document.location="https://google.com")</script>

EDIT: Yes, it's the old redirect added in March: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/AsahiLinux.github.io/commit/a7...

EDIT2: per this new commit not yet deployed, the site hides the text but makes it visible if you've visited the HN submit page through a CSS trick: https://github.com/AsahiLinux/AsahiLinux.github.io/commit/5c...

Wow. Have these people ever been on 4chan? I’m with that other comment, this childish dogma is making it difficult to be supportive of Asahi.

Yes, I'm sure HN is just as bad as that site where people do things like doxx/swat users, or encourage things like a violent insurrection.

At least 4chan has some level of self awareness.

Asahi Linux is exploiting a browser vulnerability with that CSS trick, specifically the one that https://varun.ch/history shows off. Firefox has a mitigation for that vulnerability by turning off layout.css.visited_links_enabled.

Whatever they did doesn't seem to work here on my Firefox. I click the link from Hacker News and I get the blog post exactly as if I typed in the URL myself.

> everyone who has ever submitted to Hacker News gets to see this banner on our website until they clear their browser history and stop contributing to HN

Wow, that is even more insane. They are actively going to show an ugly banner, to every user they can determine has contributed to HN, telling them to stop contributing to HN?

Does your Linux distro actively try and push you into specific social media patterns?? Me neither.

Does your Linux distro actively try and push you into specific social media patterns?? Me neither.

I've also never seen that from an OS maintainer. I've only seen that in small semi-private forums that are trying to stay somewhat below the radar and even then it is rather silly. Those sites should just make themselves private, password protected and invite-only. OS distributions should be welcoming and inclusive for all assuming they care at all about adoption of their work

I was wondering the same thing, not sure how that works...

It doesn't look like it is active on their site but I would assume it is a link to the submit page with some conditional CSS based on whether the user has visited the site. Changing the display setting and text color.

Submit has a URL so you can make the text you want to show as part of the visited style of that element, otherwise the styling could hide it.

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