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I created an automated reminder in my email to share the best stories from my blog to Hacker News, this is not some elaborate bot system. I'm just one dude run

I created an automated reminder in my email to share the best stories from my blog to Hacker News, this is not some elaborate bot system. I'm just one dude running a solo business and need to build automation things like that so I don't forget to post on Hacker News. I never manipulated votes or anything like that.

minimaxir 7y ago
> So all you have to do is click that link, and it will prepopulate the Hacker News submit page with everything > My outsourcing team, in combination with @trypigeon is trained to click that link whenever they see that email. > And that's how I hit the front page without knowing! https://twitter.com/thepatwalls/status/1164708761136553985 https://twitter.com/thepatwalls/status/1164708761136553985 And you bragged about being called out in another tweet, which doesn't feel very repentant. Regardless, this discussion thread is guaranteed to be linked to in all of your future HN submissions that hit the front page and consequently flagged to death, so I hope it was worth it.