No, not april fools. Hacker News is one of those websites where the commenters are often very angry people. Note, I said commenters not lurkers/passive browsers/link clickers. Anyone who uses Hacker News just as a website to find links on, I have no beef with. But most people who comment on it.. I don't want anything to do with them. So I used link referrer to "block" the site: If someone sees a link to my blog on there and clicks it, depending if your browser sends a referral header or not, ...
