I don't get it.

Whats the issue?

Check the second link.

On another note - the third link captures the back button and doesn’t let you get back to hacker news (at least on mobile). What a shitty site.

Here's a trick from the old days (works in all my mobile browsers[1]):

long click the back button, a popup will show your navigation history and you can click the last link before entering the broken site.

That said, the behavior is absolutely unacceptable.

[1]: And in Firefox desktop you can also do this but I can't remember if it is long-click or right click.

Yeah...remember when SlashDot was Hacker News?

How the great have fallen...