I'm not actually sure what he's done. If I check the source of any asahilinux.org page, this is the only match for ycombinator / Hacker News (it's what he had previously that HN started circumventing because fuck him), I also can't find any other
<script>
tags:
HTML:
<script>document.referrer.startsWith("https://news.ycombinator.com")&&(console.log("Hacker News is becoming worse than 4chan. Do better."),document.location="https://google.com")</script>
I initially thought he could be sniffing whether a link to HN turned purple through JS but it turns out
that's been patched by browsers long ago. (
a)
In the second toot he says "Don't even think about adding a hash to the submit link." By this he might be referring to
https://news.ycombinator.com/submit ? Well I visited it (I don't have an account and it just takes you to a login page) and the notice doesn't appear on asahilinux.org for me. Maybe he wrote something that only works in his testing environment and it doesn't actually fucking work in production.
So I might be retarded but I'm really not sure as to what he's done if anything. This could just be the impotent fruitless rage of a manchild on top of an already ultimately impotent and fruitless rage of a manchild.