The annoying behaviour i'm referring to, is that news.yc DNS currently doesn't anticipate the default behaviour of browser auto-completes for "news.ycombinator"
Case 1: I verbally pass the url out to friends who are interested in learning from smarter people, and their view attempt fails without even an error message.
Case 2) My lazy self: When at another non-HN-user person's computer, typing news.ycombinator and CTRL+ENTER annoys me when it fails; and I have to retype it again in full. I'm pretty sure there are other lazy folk like me, who probably just don't think its worth mentioning. But, all the same, I think this is significant. @HN team: I hope you think this is worth fixing sometime when you do routine hacking on the HN server(and DNS).
Thanks in advance