[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 .