scribd

Therefore, it would seem that the bug is related to scribd, not HN.

Perhaps the scribd link (if this is even needed) should be in the info-line below the title.

Most phones have PDF viewing capabilities, what is the need to host PDFs on scribd?

Update: Flash still doesn't work perfectly -- as my trip to scribd just proved.

I have never understood the point of scribd, but in this case it might just have been a convenient semi-anonymous place for somebody to post this.

Can we stop using and supporting scribd yet?

OK, this finally motivated me to make a userscript that replaces Scribd links with Google docs (I didn't realize it was so easy to construct a link to their viewer).

I think that what usually happens is that when you send a link to scribd that doesn't exist, it downloads the document and immediately presents it to you in their UI.

It's pretty incredible that it just happens to work out that, every PDF link, which often open in annoying viewers in many OS/browser combinations, gets a scribd link at the end of it, both as a warning that's a PDF file and as a way to view it online without downloading it first.

Note, "[scribd]" is a separate link to the iPaper version of a pdf.

I've downloaded a few versions of the "Danish text" from scribd, and I can't find the numbers that this article is quoting.

"Scribd, the YouTube of document..." or..

Scribd (YC '06, "Netflix for eBooks", top 100 website, 50 people) is hiring talented hackers of all kinds to help us build the library of the 21st century.

If you/anyone didn't notice, it's actually a link to view the PDF in a flash viewer on Scribd.

Scribd alumni have gone on to found 4 other YCombinator companies, more than from any other startup.

Scribd and Quora get called on their bullshit all the time.