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Re:VVVVVV’s source code is now public, 10 year anniversary j... by takeda on Friday January 10, 2020 @06:30PM (#22016736)
Is owner of the server playing some tricks, when I tried that URL on Firefox Focus on my phone, it is just the text and I believe what parent wanted to submit, but indeed it looks fishy, I got 403 when tried to see what the redirect was using curl.

What did showed for you?

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Re:VVVVVV’s source code is now public, 10 year anniversary j... by sirsar on Friday January 10, 2020 @06:44PM (#22016811)
jwz isn't a fan of this site. Last I checked, if the referer was news.ycombinator.com, it redirected to a testicle in an egg cup.
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Re:VVVVVV’s source code is now public, 10 year anniversary j... by DonHopkins on Sunday January 12, 2020 @01:31AM (#22024845)
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use a testicle in an egg cup." Now they have two problems.
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Re:VVVVVV’s source code is now public, 10 year anniversary j... by gield on Friday January 10, 2020 @07:04PM (#22016927)
For anyone who is as curious as me and wants to test it: https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
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Re:VVVVVV’s source code is now public, 10 year anniversary j... by bscphil on Friday January 10, 2020 @08:20PM (#22017344)
This is one reason I love having changed network.http.referer.XOriginPolicy[1] in Firefox. I never send the referer to third party domains, and I've only ever seen one or two sites broken because of this. It's a vast improvement for privacy as well.

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Referrer

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Re:VVVVVV’s source code is now public, 10 year anniversary j... by spondyl on Friday January 10, 2020 @07:43PM (#22017143)
Once you go to the link directly, it appears to work fine coming from HN? It seems to work consistently if you visit (from this thread) in a new tab
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Re:VVVVVV’s source code is now public, 10 year anniversary j... by rrix2 on Friday January 10, 2020 @08:19PM (#22017336)
jwz's entire site checks your Referer header and does this if it comes from HN.
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