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Ask HN: How do I make a link clickable on HN?

3 points by am2267 ↗ HN
I'm trying to make www.investopad.com clickable in a comment elsewhere.

Is it a karma thing?

5 comments

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benologist
For comments you have to just type the url, no text or tags.

http://google.com/

For submissions you can submit a url or text but not both, and URLs in the text don't get parsed.

arscan
Urls don't become links in the text of the submission. They do become links in comments.
inetsee
What you could do is submit a post describing the website and why HN readers should be interested in it. Then immediately post a comment with a clickable link to the URL.
codegeek
To make a link clickable in a comment, you need to prefix it with "http://.
mohit_agg
btw how much karma is required to submit a startup for review?