Yes, we can see your submission and we can comment on it. You have now 26 karma and you could submit a question, so I assume there's either no minimum karma or

Yes, we can see your submission and we can comment on it. You have now 26 karma and you could submit a question, so I assume there's either no minimum karma or it's very low. However, I wouldn't be surprised if the submitter's karma plays a role in the ranking or flagging logic (they might pay more attention to flame or spam topics for new accounts). There's this repo that documents other things, though not what you asked, I'm not sure if it's still correct https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented