On: Social media encourages us to follow those we envy

[dang]

I'm loth to special-case that for just one site (besides which it would feel like responding in kind). But putting it in all links would be overkill.

[pvg → dang]

You could also take out <meta name="referrer" content="origin"> from the pages, then there's no special casing and no referrer (in the https case). Aside from enhanced privacy it might serve as a disincentive to game HN since it becomes less obvious how much traffic HN brings in.