Yeah, even if it did drive a ton of traffic, it's not really fair to HN to get links to links. Especially when we have less discussion around it than they do.

k00b

Ratio'd (for the count of comments) the post with the direct link to the DoJ press release even.  255 comments for the SN link, versus 80 for the DoJ link.

Of course, not everyone on HN is happy with that.

What is happening here? This link is to stacker.news, a HN-like website. It's for a story that is another active top story already on HN.

Are folks just commenting on the headline without even clicking the link?

Which, I would agree.  For example, nobody wants to see a post here on SN that is just a link to a post on HN, which itself is a link to an underlying article somewhere else.

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saloon

Wow!!!

Ratio'd (for the count of comments) the post with the direct link to the DoJ press release even.  255 comments for the SN link, versus 80 for the DoJ link.

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32180428 (DoJ link)
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32180555 (SN link)

Of course, not everyone on HN is happy with that.

> What is happening here? This link is to stacker.news, a HN-like website. It's for a story that is another active top story already on HN.
> Are folks just commenting on the headline without even clicking the link?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32183060

Which, I would agree.  For example, nobody wants to see a post here on SN that is just a link to a post on HN, which itself is a link to an underlying article somewhere else.