I had to stop submitting ISC SANS posts because they similarly have a canonical link in their head which HN, for reasons I'm not sure about, use to 'correct' the URL, errantly.
Thanks. I'm not sure it is going to be necessary. I checked the ISC diary site again yesterday and I think they have corrected their 'link rel="canonical"' header. I will try to submit one again when I see an interesting one.