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I wonder if submitting the following link to HN would result in (google.com) being displayed next to the link instead of (tinfoilsecurity.com):

http://www.google.com/finance/url?sa=D&q=http://blog.tin...

I'd try, but I don't want to risk upsetting HN's moderators ;-)

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1.) Yes, I think so. 2.) Don't worry, it has been done before:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1259695

(That particular instance doesn't work anymore, though)

Ha, that's cute. I wonder if HN follows redirects in link-posting. My suspicion is no - you can post a 404, for example, and it'll just use the domain.

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