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by shkkmo 1075 days ago
> It's silly to pretend that the use of a 404 in this type of circumstance is either clearcut in the standards or ubiquitous in practice.

The standards seem pretty clear to me.

I would point out that technically, the path portion of the HN URI does indeed point to a valid endpoint, it is the query portion of the URI (usually not used by the server to do any routing) that points to a non-existent resource.

Still, HN is wrong here and should be returning a 404 status.