It's just for people clicking through from HN.

Perhaps @dang can give the author what he desires and block the domain from HN submissions.

He has his reasons to use his platform to remind us who we platform.

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/01/y-combinator-ceo-wishes-dea...

I think I would rather HN be linked to something explaining why he reroutes, like the above link, rather than randomly being shown a scrotum in an egg holder.

Well, when you set up your blog to pay attention to the referrer header, you can link it to where you want.

I mean hating on Dean Preston isn't exactly an odd opinion. Few people have done as much to drive up the cost of living and limit access to housing as Dean.

Death threats from a billionaire are not to be ignored.

Why should they be given special treatment?

It's just for people whose browsers are publishing an origin from this page.

Copy paste the link and navigate to it directly to bypass that.

(Immature? Maybe. It harkens back to an era where people would do that sort of thing. And hey, it's a better way to deal with this site functioning as a temporary DDOS attack against other people's site infrastructure than failing to serve everybody's requests. And, well, jwz has been around long enough to have earned his opinion of the technorati who frequent the site, self included ;) ).