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Why share this bizarre scraper copy of the article and not the original one that gives traffic to the author?

https://1517.substack.com/p/why-bell-labs-worked

The original definitely didn't include lines like

> Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published



Thanks—we've changed the URL to that from https://links.fabiomanganiello.com/share/683ee70d0409e6.6627... now.

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


It was probably auto flagged as dupe because the original was discussed recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43957010


Thanks! We missed that. I've pinned a link to the other thread to the top now.


I noticed that too and thought it was so odd. Editing artifact? AI artifact?


This one gives traffic to Substack, not the author. Nevertheless, canonical URLs remain better than scraped clones.




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