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Wrong link, should be https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-08/day-trader-army-loses-all-the-money-it-made-in-meme-stock-era https://www.bloomberg.com

• jonny_eh 4y ago
  Pretty revealing that a HN post can make to the front page with a broken link.
  • natly 4y ago
    Are you implying people don't read the body of the article or that there's bot interference? (I can imagine either could be true.)
    • hammock 4y ago
      The former. I for one happily upvote a submission before reading it, to keep it on the front page which is so fragilely ephemeral for new submissions, so I can read the article and then come back to (hopefully) some good comments from others in the thread.
  • planarhobbit 4y ago
    Only if you haven’t been paying attention to how upvoting rings control HN, against all the behind the scenes work to thwart them.
  • gpm 4y ago
    The original link works (for me), it just directs me through a captcha first. That's not a broken link by the usual meaning of the phrase, it doesn't mean people weren't reading the post...
    • knorker 4y ago
      Directed me to a captcha too. It's just that the captcha didn't work and "please try again".
      • Havoc 4y ago
        Yeah broken here too
  • fragmede 4y ago
    Or is it intentionally broken, as a ploy to hurt Bloomberg's bot detection algorithm.
    • lalaland1125 4y ago
      Nope, just a dumb accident. I think Bloomberg redirected me right before I copied the URL from the address bar ... Is there any way to easily fix the link?
• lalaland1125 4y ago
  @dang, can you do us a favor and fix the link? I don't seem to be able to fix it myself.
  • deleted 4y ago
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• dang 4y ago
  Fixed, thanks! The former did a redir to the latter and our software follows redirs now.