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Ask HN and Show HN
How does posting to the different HN categories work?
I see some posts in Show HN and Ask HN that don’t start with those strings, so wondering how do they get added to those categories respectively?
- jjgreen 3y agoClick submit, add "Ask HN:" to the start of your title, leave the URL blank, write your question in the text box.
- pkc_official 3y agoHow did this one show in Ask HN? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36656331 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36656331 (just an example, there are more without “Ask HN”
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- jjgreen 3y agoThat would need a response from the site devs.
- chromoblob 3y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html (the link is at the bottom of most HN pages) > What are Ask HN and Show HN? > Ask HN lists questions and other text submissions. Show HN is for sharing your personal work and has special rules.
- beardyw 3y agoWell, looking at ../show they all start with "Show HN". Those in ../ask are a bit less uniform. So I guess that if it doesn't have a URL and doesn't start "Show HN" it is "Ask HN". I may be wrong.