I'm not sure if it strictly violates any rule or not, but I will say that I've seen people who do this, and it has been accepted. But I think the key may be tha

I'm not sure if it strictly violates any rule or not, but I will say that I've seen people who do this, and it has been accepted. But I think the key may be that the handful of times I've seen this allowed, was a situation where it was very low volume. Like, maybe a couple of times a year or something. If you're blogging every day, every week, or even maybe once a month, I suspect you'd wind up getting your wrist slapped (so to speak). And as others have said, another factor would be if the only thing your account posts is content from your own blog. Doing that is definitely frowned upon. But if you're really curious, it would probably be best to email hn@ycombinator.com and ask. Note that the site guidelines[1] do say: Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to hn@ycombinator.com. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html