It's about time hacker news implemented a 'target="_blank"' feature in their links outside of the news.ycombinator.com domain. Don't you?
There is a suggestions thread for this kind of stuff. Or you could email the,. Or there's a github. But, if you're going to make this kind of thread it might have been better as a poll. "Do you want links to open in new tabs? 12345 where 1 is "YES" and 5 is "NO".<p>Me, I'm going to say strong no. I prefer predictable links.