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Your canonical url as set in the meta tags is coinage.app and HN automatically replaces the posted URL with the canonical URL when it finds one.

No, this isn't documented anywhere as far as I know. You're just expected to notice and edit your post after the fact if you don't want the change.

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That makes sense. I had not realized HN reads the canonical meta tag and automatically replaces the submitted URL. Thank you for clarifying. I tried to update it, but HN does not give me an option to edit the submitted URL

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