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I assume HN automatically strips the query string from submitted URLs, to deter things like tracking IDs and referral links.

Well, that gets annoying when the referral has the identifier that allows people to read the article for free.

Perhaps the HN mods should act as actual editors instead of mods. Slashdot does it - it works when the editors actually pay attention. Let's see how closely HN's mods pay attention.

I assume this is automated away and might not be recoverable by dang et al, I've thought many times about making an archive bot for hn submissions, might go as well as build it, it's weird that in this site full of hacker no one has thought of it before, makes me think it's prohibited or something but I don't really think so, as archive links are generally permitted, maybe have a bot spam every comment section isn't ideal tho

HN uses the canonical link (HTML -> HEAD -> Link=canonical) to reconcile the "true" URL to help with dupe detection. You can't submit a gift link since the canonical excludes that code. (You can always comment the link though, thank you!)

It works for me, thanks!

Nytimes gift links only work for the first person that uses it, I believe.