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RFC1738 - Uniform Resource Locators (URL) - recommends use of angle brackets in its "Recommendations for URLs in Context" appendix; when URLs are embedded in text.

<http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt>;



Sure, but HN mangles the links. If this was email it might make more sense - or if HN's auto-parsing code were changed.


This is the Internet.

It's filled with pedants.

Some of us are even RFC-compliant.




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