On: Changing the Culture of Python at Facebook [video]

[throw_away]

Or, perhaps hn could just auto-dereference the links to a whitelist of the most popular shorteners & then everyone can be happy?

[sctb → throw_away]

Thanks, that's a good idea that has come up before. We've got it on our list to look at.

[jimminy → sctb]

Part of the reason Youtube provides the youtu.be link is that their systems disambiguate between mobile and desktop websites.

Mobile versions have the 'm.' subdomain, and provide a less optimized experience for desktop.

I would also argue that the youtu.be link is a canonical form, since the identifiers are identical to the source. It is just an optimized canonical proxy.