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by joshka 4970 days ago
Whilst I enjoy jwz's writings, please follow the hacker news guidelines which can be found at http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

In particular: Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter. The original source is https://code.google.com/p/xee/source/browse/XeePhotoshopLoad...

Also: Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.

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Hmm. Here's something else I found at those guidelines you linked, there:

> Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.

In this case, I suspect jwz's commentary and re-post of it is as much "the story" as the rant in the original source.
Later on the list of guidelines:

"Don't abuse the text field in the submission form to add commentary to links. The text field is for starting discussions. If you're submitting a link, put it in the url field. If you want to add initial commentary on the link, write a blog post about it and submit that instead."

Well, from an archival point of view, jwz's blog post I expect will last for some time (I believe he understands the value of durable URLs). On the other hand, either Google Code or the Xee project have managed to break the direct link that was submitted to HN last time (less than 4 years ago).

So that Google code link is the original source today, but it might not be tomorrow.