Well, that seem repetitive to me still. At the bottom of every browser is a status bar, and in that status bar the URL for the link will appear. If someone is unclear on the link they can always look there. Also, if we take a hint from Hacker news themselves https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5864427 you can see they only display the domain name to save on visual space. I think something like that would be acceptable. Take a look at the [URI class](http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-2.0/libdoc/uri/rdoc/index.html) to see how to easily extract the domain name from the URL.