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.
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.
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.
I think this is true for images on posts, which I don't want to see. I was specifically referring to posts in the sense of comments. I want the ability to embed images in a comment.
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
