I assume to promote the site. The spam here is always so interesting.

ikr? it seems like if we can figure out what to do with a big wad of ASII armoured data, we don't need animated gifs to be made easier than they already are. i wonder if poster just expects this to show up as an embedded image because that's what happens on other forums, or if they think this is a good value proposition for hackers?

perhaps no one will ever know...

Actually I was just playing around and forgot to delete it.

I knew i could paste a URI and wondered which protocols created a hyper link.

I wish we could add images on HN.

haha, it was much more exotic in my imagination. as usual. :)