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> why wouldn't they use (searchable) permalinks? I'm assuming there's a reason for this, as its not the easiest way to do things.

It's straight forward, but not when you are using closures and continuations.

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So... hacker news chose to let their product be limited by an engineering issue?

HN isn't their product, it's a neat side feature.

Must we discuss the same thing that was discussed in the thread I posted the link to? Nothing new has happened since the last thread.

As they're serving that <body> they could easily serve a "this link has expired, view the new front page" with a link to the homepage and possibly a list of other top pages (like "new" or whatever).

Even if it's not going to be fixed then it could still be improved with, it seems, almost no work.

Mind you I've seen offers to fix it for free (requiring someone the owners trust to review the code I guess) that have apparently been rejected so it's presumably a chosen outcome.

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