This change makes those types of content completely inaccessible to iPhone and iPod Touch users.<p>Which is funny since Buxfer released their iPhone interface to Hacker News this same day.<p>Edit:<p>I'm sure something will change about this, but until then here's a bookmarklet that rewrites iPaper urls to point straight to the original files (take out the line breaks when you make the bookmark):<p><pre><code> javascript:function%20revertScribdLinks(a){for(var%20i=0;i<a.length;i++)
{a[i].setAttribute(%22href%22,a[i].getAttribute(%22href%22).replace(
/^.*\.scribd.com.*\?url=(.*)$/,%22$1%22))}}revertScribdLinks(
document.getElementsByTagName(%22a%22));</code></pre>
I suggested (222 days ago) a way that'd make it easy for me to remember at <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38661" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38661</a><p><pre><code> http://<address><uri> becomes http://<address>.pdf.scribd.com<uri>
http://www.janestcapital.com.pdf.scribd.com/yaron_minsky-cufp_2006.pdf
</code></pre>
Instead of pdf.scribd.com it'd obviously be nicer if it was just scribd.com. It's easy in BIND to set a wildcard record for everything except the subdomains you actually use.
Sorry this is unrelated, but I must see the integration in action.<p>Lorem ipsum pdf:
<a href="http://jedidiah.stuff.gen.nz/marbles-presentation.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://jedidiah.stuff.gen.nz/marbles-presentation.pdf</a><p>Hm. Guess iPaper integration ain't in comments. That's kind of sad. Why not?<p>EDIT: Someone else made a test story that linked to a pdf: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=134854" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=134854</a>