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From what I've seen on here usually 'Tell HN:' is used for things like "this company banned my account for no reason" or "this service is down" etc... Anyway I

• OJFord 4y ago
  'tell' to me is more like a warning that it's not an external link (and 'ask'/'show' don't fit). 'show' is when the point of the post is to show off the project; whereas here (partly by the fact that it is 'tell'!) the point is sort of tangential to the actual project, it's just an example of the topic rather than the topic itself.