"As many as seven passengers aboard the Pakistan International Airlines flight PK-743 (Karachi-Madina) on Jan 20 were forced to stand throughout the over three-hour flight after the airline boarded excess passengers in a serious breach of air safety regulations."
What flight are you referring to? The article says extra passengers were allowed to stand in the aisles. It also says the captain was unaware until after takeoff.
> Don't put spaces before commas or question marks.
Actually, I do this all the time, when what precedes the punctuation mark is a URL. It just doesn't seem right to have the URL seamlessly run into a punctuation mark that isn't actually part of it.
URL a permissible exception to a rule that otherwise stands.
You can identify texts written by French people by the extra spaces (if they're careful or have a good word processor, it'll even be a non-breaking space).
People downvote over some dumb stuff sometimes on HN, but I'd be careful about posting a complaint about being downvoted that contains no other contents. It's against site rules and could get you in trouble.