Ask HN: How does Hacker News work?

12 points by a_nar 5 years ago | 4 comments

I'm new here. I did read the welcome page, but it didn't explain how stuff works here. After looking at the front page, I saw that you can add tags, such as Ask HN.

LinuxBender 5 years ago |

Here [1] are some undocumented features of HN. The Guidelines and FAQ below have more details. If you hang out for a while you will get the gist of it.

[1] - https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented

arthtyagi 5 years ago |

Yeah so basically : - ASK HN : To Ask HN something. Make sure it's a legitimate question and re-read it to yourself to make sure it makes sense. It's not for asking questions like "How to do a binary search?", that belongs elsewhere.

- SHOW HN : To show HN something that you built ( or someone else did ) and receive feedback on it. Don't spam the same thing over and over, your account might get marked as spam, I learnt it the hard way.

- LAUNCH HN : It's for YC startups when they launch.

Apart from this, you should feel free to post anything new and interesting that you find on the internet. Primarily tech-related but not necessarily. Anything that helps quench curiosity and isn't spammy works.

dmlittle 5 years ago | |

FYI Show HN is used to show work that you've done but not work that someone else has done. Reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23543259

type0 5 years ago |

It's written in Arc (Lisp dialect):

http://arclanguage.org/

Some tidbits bout moderation here:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/th...