Ask HN: Why doesn't HN open links in a new tab

I don't want that behaviour.

If you want it, cool, use middle button click or whatever works on your system. But don't take my preferred behaviour away without any remedy.

Opening in the same tab is the default behaviour of links in most browsers. If you want to, you can probably configure yours to always open links in new tabs, or like Tomte said, middle click on them. I don't like websites altering default behavior either, especially since it's usually so easy to open in a new tab anyway when you want to.

You could email them and suggest it. Since they don't specify a doctype in the page and browsers are using quirks mode, it should support a target [1] without issue.

[1] - https://html.com/attributes/a-target/

Their email is:

    hn@ycombinator.com