It does. If you look closely, you'll see that HN's URL parser ignored the ] at the end of the URL. If you click on the URL and then add a ] to the end of it, your JSON will be valid and you'll see two alert boxes.

Edit: But yeah, my bad for not noticing that earlier. I've swapped it out for a bit.ly link now, so it works properly. I'm headed to sleep. :)