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Sorry for a meta question but is the "Show HN" tag correctly applied? I tried to check if the poster is a developer of Firecracker, but unless that their contri

Sorry for a meta question but is the "Show HN" tag correctly applied? I tried to check if the poster is a developer of Firecracker, but unless that their contributions were pre-GitHub, I don't think that the tag qualifies.

ciprian_craciun 5y ago
Indeed you are right, I've just checked the submission rules <https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html> and they say confirm what you suggesting. I'll change the title to remove the `Show HN`. P.S.: I'm not the author, nor am I involved with Firecracker; however given they've just released v1.0.0, and no-one shared it, I thought it would be worth pointing at it.
- ciprian_craciun 5y ago
  Unfortunately it seems I can't change the title anymore...
  - dang 5y ago
    I've changed it now.
ciprian_craciun 5y ago
About this `Show HN` tag... I, apparently wrongly, interpret this tag as "here is an interesting open-source project that seems to have been overlooked". Perhaps it would be nice to have a new tag so one can easily discern between "just another article" and "an open-source project". For example my main interaction with HN is to find new and interesting tools and projects, and such a tag would be very helpful for me. Any thoughts? How should I tag such links in the future?
- ignoramous 5y ago
  > Any thoughts? How should I tag such links in the future? One does not necessarily tag such submissions. A link to the page with the title unedited (edited iff the title is inadequate or is a clickbiat), is more than enough. If you must tag such submissions, Tell HN seems the best suited. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - pvg 5y ago
    Tell HN is not a good tag for such submissions, the right thing is just not trying to gussy up your submissions - a cornerstone principle of HN. Everything posted to HN is someone telling or showing something, the tags are highly specialized. If unsure, just don't use the tags.

ciprian_craciun 5y ago

Indeed you are right, I've just checked the submission rules <https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html> and they say confirm what you suggesting. I'll change the title to remove the `Show HN`. P.S.: I'm not the author, nor am I involved with Firecracker; however given they've just released v1.0.0, and no-one shared it, I thought it would be worth pointing at it.

ciprian_craciun 5y ago
Unfortunately it seems I can't change the title anymore...
- dang 5y ago
  I've changed it now.

ciprian_craciun 5y ago

About this `Show HN` tag... I, apparently wrongly, interpret this tag as "here is an interesting open-source project that seems to have been overlooked". Perhaps it would be nice to have a new tag so one can easily discern between "just another article" and "an open-source project". For example my main interaction with HN is to find new and interesting tools and projects, and such a tag would be very helpful for me. Any thoughts? How should I tag such links in the future?

ignoramous 5y ago
> Any thoughts? How should I tag such links in the future? One does not necessarily tag such submissions. A link to the page with the title unedited (edited iff the title is inadequate or is a clickbiat), is more than enough. If you must tag such submissions, Tell HN seems the best suited. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- pvg 5y ago
  Tell HN is not a good tag for such submissions, the right thing is just not trying to gussy up your submissions - a cornerstone principle of HN. Everything posted to HN is someone telling or showing something, the tags are highly specialized. If unsure, just don't use the tags.