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HN's primitive URL parsing definitely doesn't derive from Microsoft :)

I did some work on it last year to take care of the worst omissions, and angle brackets should also now work to demark tricky URLs but there are still some edge cases. For example, <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doe_v._Exxon_Mobil_Corp.> should work, but doesn't (yet!)

Edit: now it does. So should these:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A*>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Weinberg#"Don't_trust_any...>

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Northern_Railway_(U.S.)>

<https://developer.android.com/reference/android/location/Loc...>

They are all cases of URLs that don't get picked up correctly by HN's current parser. At least now they work with angle brackets.