[avinoth]

No, please no. Hyperlinks exist, and they work just fine. HN is one of the last few sites that doesn't glamorize the UX (nothing wrong with that). I'd rather read a thousand words than a picture.

[whiplash451]

They actually glamorize UX in their own way

[kelseydh]

I used to think this way about Reddit, but they added embedded images to posts and it works great. There are many times on this website where people talk about seeing something cool but cannot attach or embed images describing what they are talking about.

[steve_adams_86]

I just upload an image to my CDN or a video to YouTube (I know, I could do better) and add a link to it. I don’t mind that. Adding image support makes me worry people would use it to meme too much.

[arcanemachiner]

I have been able to benchmark the quality of a subreddit inversely with the number of images that are present in its threads.

This benchmark has not failed me yet. But I use reddit for basically the same thing I use HN for, which is mostly for reading about nerdy techy stuff.

[saaspirant]

There a lot of popular old reddit where the attached image's link is dead since it was hosted on a 3rd party site. So I think it would be nice to have image support in HN