news.ycombinator.com
Hacker News
What it is
Hacker News, Y Combinator's link-sharing and discussion site.
Why there's no full URL
Hacker News sets its referrer policy to origin, so you get https://news.ycombinator.com/ and not the discussion thread URL.
What traffic it represents
Clicks on your link from the Hacker News front page, a submission or comments.
Sources
<meta name="referrer" content="origin">
Hacker News (page source, checked 2026-10-06)
Send only the origin in the Referer header.
Referrer-Policy header - MDN
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