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I want to see if these are real, but I don't want people knocking on my door tomorrow morning.

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use tor then

https://www.torproject.org/

In case someone too naive is reading, using something like tor won't give you hacker super powers. The only real protection you can have is knowing what you are doing, and even then you can fail. I wouldn't recommend messing with stuff like this while you are eating a donut and reading hacker news (nor any other moment for that matter).

Well, HN receives a significant amount of traffic -- probably a good many people do go on to click the links. It's equivalent at this point to having the URL featured on some high-traffic tech news site.

If you're still wary, pick the most unremarkable one, that you think most people are likely to click. That way it seems more normal from their perspective -- you're just one among many in the wide sea. Here, I'll even help you out: https://secureweb.hqda.pentagon.mil/dpo/Details.asp?ID=108

Huh, I thought you had pasted the URL wrong. But it is a bug on this site that swallowed the quote.

Anyways add a ' to the end of that URL and you'll see clear evidence of a SQL injection bug. But it is just demonstrating that the bug is there. It would take more work to get access to their database.

If you're still wary, pick the most unremarkable one, that you think most people are likely to click.

This sentence makes no sense whatsoever. It seems that you think "unremarkable" means likely to draw a lot of attention.

For reals. I thoughtlessly clicked, as I would any other HN link, until I realized...it was not...kosher.

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