Comment by ronbenton
2 days ago
This may be a situation where HackerNews' shorthand of omitting the subdomain is not good. spectrum.ieee.org appears to be more of a newsletter or editorial part of the website, but you wouldn't know that's what this was just based on the HN tag.
I've been on this site for over a decade now and didn't know this. That's a genuinely baffling decision given how different content across subdomains can be.
On the other hand, “ieee spectrum” is directly at the top of the page, then “guest article.”
Well, as much as I'm sure HN is a special place ;) , it is well documented that a lot of people on the internet just read the headlines
Articles? Headlines? I go right to the comments!
Maybe an exception could be made here, like HN does for medium.com.