Usually the link remains original but someone helpful posts a comment with a link to xcancel or archive.org.

The guidelines⁽¹⁾ make it clear the OP did the correct thing: ”Please submit the original source.”

⁽¹⁾ https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Recently the xcancel captcha changed and now I prefer nitter.net. seems the same but no captcha.

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