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First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV

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606 points saikatsg | 8 comments | 08 May 25 16:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.532s | source | bottom
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freetime2 ◴[08 May 25 17:10 UTC] No.43928453[source]▶
The pope is not a subject that typically interests me, but I must admit that I find announcing a decision with changing smoke color rather delightful. I wonder how long ago that started.
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1. ch4s3 ◴[08 May 25 17:16 UTC] No.43928553[source]▶
The white smoke means there's a pope thing started in 1914[1], but they've been burning the ballots for a very long time.

[1]https://www.history.com/articles/pope-conclave-smoke-color

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2. wvbdmp ◴[08 May 25 18:15 UTC] No.43929396[source]▶
Any chance the guy who programmed history.com to redirect deep links to your local tld version’s frontpage is on HN? What a helpful feature
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3. nosianu ◴[08 May 25 18:15 UTC] No.43929401[source]▶
Annoyingly, when I go to that page, even from Google where I found that URL too, I end up at the German homepage www.history.de (no path, the main page). I cannot go to history.com no matter what.

I hate "intelligent" websites as much as I like touchpad microwaves, and that means not at all. Why would anyone assume an enforced(!!!) connection between my geographic location and the language-version of the website?

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4. majewsky ◴[08 May 25 19:06 UTC] No.43930079[source]▶
They might be, but the necktie that made them do it sure isn't.
5. seszett ◴[08 May 25 19:29 UTC] No.43930354[source]▶
I even get to "history.nl/nl" even though I'm a French speaker in Belgium. On a French connection it redirects to "aenetworks.tv".

I don't think there is any way to access that page from outside the US.

6. Sharlin ◴[08 May 25 19:42 UTC] No.43930492[source]▶
It's one of the classic falsehoods that programmers (or perhaps more accurately, product managers) believe about localization: that location equals language.
7. bromuro ◴[09 May 25 01:07 UTC] No.43932910[source]▶
Mine goes to Youtube after some quick redirects :(
8. 4ggr0 ◴[09 May 25 12:07 UTC] No.43935872[source]▶
> I hate "intelligent" websites as much as I like touchpad microwaves, and that means not at all

So you don't hate "intelligent" websites, at all? :D Then you must love this lang-redirect!