On: Ask HN: Who is working/has worked on porn sites?

[rodion_89]

nothing to do with the post, but im just curious why there is a strange character right after 'ie=UTF-8' in the name of your link.

[there → rodion_89]

because the encoded url is

    http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=adult...

and the HN code that truncates long urls chopped it in the middle of &#38 so it becomes "&#3" which is telling your browser to print the ascii character 3, which it can't show properly, so it shows the character you see instead.