[sillysaurus3]

There isn't an obvious way to fix this without dramatically changing the way pages are rendered.

Actually, it's easy to fix, because it's easy to turn dynamic urls ("fnid" urls) into regular URLs (something like "/submitreply?id=xxx").

They just haven't gotten around to it yet, which is fine.

[aaronem]

I actually just grabbed a copy of the HN source a few days ago in pursuit of a potential side project I'm screwing around with on behalf of a community I frequent. I'm half tempted to dig into it and see what I can come up with in terms of a fix, but before doing so I'd want to know where I could submit a pull request or send a patch, and I'd want to know that such a pull request or patch would receive serious consideration from those responsible for HN, rather than a "thanks, we'll check it out never" sort of response.

(It's one thing if I end up with something that doesn't work in a test case I failed to consider beforehand, or doesn't fit in well with whatever plans exist on the part of HN's current maintainers; that's something I can understand, and I'm not about to get my nose out of joint over it. What would raise my ire would be to put in the effort and see it go zinging off into the ether, never to be heard from again.)

[jaredsohn]

Another comment linked to some comments from dang:

"It's on our list. There are a lot of things on the list; we don't know yet when we'll get to it."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7651770

So I imagine that if you submitted a pull request, they would at least look at it when trying to fix it.