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2 HN users recommended this in 2018, in 2 comments.
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Each tall tick is one HN user's first recommendation. A short tick is the same user again. Click a tick to jump to the comment.
2 HN users recommended this in 2018, in 2 comments.
Each tall tick is one HN user's first recommendation. A short tick is the same user again. Click a tick to jump to the comment.
PSA: You can make your own (relatively) shorter URLs if you're willing to guess at how to un-pretty site's URLs. My most common one is Amazon. Most URLs are amazon.com/dp/xxxxxxxxxxxxx. Knowing that you can take a nasty URL like:
https://www.amazon.com/Red-4TB-Hard-Disk-Drive/dp/B00EHBERSE...
and change it to:
https://amazon.com/dp/B00EHBERSE
That's 122 chars to 32 chars. This kind of tactic works for tons of sites.
They're talking about generating the shorter link just by looking at the first one (e.g., in your head).
How do you get your link out of https://www.amazon.com/Red-4TB-Hard-Disk-Drive/dp/B00EHBERSE... without using a tool?