<story><title>Show HN: Add a “1” to your Hacker News URL to get fancy social previews</title><text>For example, paste this into Slack or Discord or whatever: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator1.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=30179549&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator1.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=30179549&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It works with comments, too: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator1.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=30180253&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator1.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=30180253&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hastily-developed source: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;statico&amp;#x2F;ycombinator1.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;statico&amp;#x2F;ycombinator1.com&lt;/a&gt;</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>lilyball</author><text>To those confused:&lt;p&gt;It looks like this &lt;i&gt;only&lt;/i&gt; adds social graph info but is otherwise a redirect. The resulting page looks like&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  &amp;lt;!doctype html&amp;gt;
  &amp;lt;html&amp;gt;
  &amp;lt;head&amp;gt;
    &amp;lt;title&amp;gt;…&amp;lt;&amp;#x2F;title&amp;gt;
    &amp;lt;!-- lots of &amp;lt;meta&amp;gt; tags --&amp;gt;
  &amp;lt;&amp;#x2F;head&amp;gt;
  &amp;lt;body&amp;gt;
    &amp;lt;script&amp;gt;
      document.location.href = &amp;quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=30180253&amp;quot;;
    &amp;lt;&amp;#x2F;script&amp;gt;
  &amp;lt;&amp;#x2F;body&amp;gt;
  &amp;lt;&amp;#x2F;html&amp;gt;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: Add a “1” to your Hacker News URL to get fancy social previews</title><text>For example, paste this into Slack or Discord or whatever: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator1.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=30179549&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator1.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=30179549&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It works with comments, too: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator1.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=30180253&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator1.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=30180253&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hastily-developed source: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;statico&amp;#x2F;ycombinator1.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;statico&amp;#x2F;ycombinator1.com&lt;/a&gt;</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jrockway</author><text>Is this just some random person that bought ycombinator1.com and added features, or an official thing?</text></comment>