alt Hacker NewsThis is fun. Is it not checking for previously submitted URLs though? I can seemingly re-submit the exact same URL and get a new link every time. I would expect this to fill the database unnecessarily but I have no idea how the backend works.
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hinkley • 01/15/2026
I got https://microsoft.web-safe.link/cZ17Xn_claim_gift_card.msi for this article. What do you get?
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Am I missing something, or would these essentially be implemented via DNS records? It's not clear to me that keeping the links in a database would be necessary at all (unless the DNS records are what you mean by "database")