[mjlawson]

Goodhart's Law[1] in action.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law

[post-it]

I've noticed everyone posts links in footnotes, is that just Hacker News etiquette?

[Jasper_]

It's old-school plain-text email etiquette. The original Markdown even used a variant of that syntax for its links definition, known as "reference links". https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#link

[therealdrag0]

Ya I think so. Since there isn’t a way to make html links with a short text .

[zetalemur]

That's a good one, did not know that. Interesting read.