Forgot one. Once you've been on a while, you can write the meta-post: "How to get your startup on Hacker News" or "Best times to post an article on HN" Nice po

Forgot one. Once you've been on a while, you can write the meta-post: "How to get your startup on Hacker News" or "Best times to post an article on HN" Nice post, swombat. The only thing I would add is that I have noticed that we all like charts, graphs, and details about stuff. So if you post about your income and traffic for a startup, be sure to include a chart and a bunch of nice, juicy details. People seem adverse to anything that's high-level or conceptual, and more friendly towards concrete and numerical information. Sometimes I think even if the details are tangential and not a directly necessary part of your thesis, folks like seeing them. So if you're doing a post on "When to log into HN to read the best comments" be sure to have some kind of graph. Don't just say 14:00GMT.