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Ask HN: What can “Tell HN” include?
Looks like it isn't the most popular but still a frequently used submission on Hacker News.
What can it include? Are there any categories one should stick to?
Pretty recent HN user, appreciate your help! :)
- dredmorbius 3y agoLargely whatever the author chooses. What survives HN's automatic penalty (no-link posts get lower ranking than those with a link) and the submission queue rely on the interaction with the moderating readership at the time of submission. There've been 319 front-page "Tell HN..." stories through 21 June 2023, of 178,882 total stories (I have an archive of front-page stories), with a random sampling of 30 of those being: Tell HN: Catch.com raises 7m. Didn't get in as solo founder (S08), kept pushing Tell HN: Coming soon – “Meet the Batch” threads for parallel Launch HNs Tell HN: Wells Fargo completely offline Tell HN: You guys scared edw519 off Hacker News Tell HN: Read Maxim and other trashy "guy" rags. Tell HN: Doing a PhD is good Tell HN: Thank you whoishiring, a.k.a. Matthew Walsh-Cloonagh Tell HN: We just launched GeoAPI.com (read/write geo API) Tell HN: just made my first dollar on the Internet from my freemium web app Tell HN: Rails screencasts. Tell HN: A $40B company killed my 2yo son. Now they force me to keep silent Tell HN: Interviewed with Triplebyte? Your profile is about to become public Tell HN: A disabled 40-year-old person founded a startup and makes a living Tell HN: Amazon fraudulently canceling orders as returned items Tell HN: Stop surfing and start making things people want Tell HN: I think I'm quitting my job today Tell HN: The 10-bit timers are about to overflow on September 17th Tell HN: Guess what Baidu and Yahoo China have already censored? Tell HN: Do not store any funds in PayPal or use them for anything critical Tell HN: Instagram demands I send a picture of myself to prove I own my account Tell HN: Let's Be Civil Tell HN: I wrote a website with a unique method of recommending links. Tell HN: Social media strike proposed for July 4-5 by Wikipedia co-founder Tell HN: YC Application Responses Are Out Tell HN: Cloudflare Is Blocking Piped Tell HN: My startup is making money and I don't know what to do Tell HN: The 2 best things I love about HN Tell HN: Summary of HN User Directories Tell HN: AWS warns us about irregular activity related to Log4shell Tell HN: Take vacation (A random sampling should afford an unbiased view of what has made the front page in the past.) Breakdown by year: 9 2008 51 2009 60 2010 19 2011 9 2012 7 2013 13 2014 8 2015 7 2016 10 2018 11 2019 13 2020 19 2021 62 2022 18 2023
- penaazv 3y agoCouldn't have asked for a better reply. This is insane (in a good way) Thank you so much!
- dredmorbius 3y agoMy pleasure. It's fun having an archive and finding new / different ways to query it.
- omgmajk 3y agoAnything that you have created that you want to share and can spark interest or debate. Say an application of some sort, a blog, some cool hack.
- version_five 3y agoThat's Show HN
- omgmajk 3y agoTrue, my mistake.
- voidnullpointer 3y ago[dead]
- cowsup 3y agoThe "Ask" posts can be accessed by navigating to /ask and the "Show" posts can be accessed by navigating to /show. "Tell" isn't official, just something people type. No real guidelines to it as far as I'm aware.
- penaazv 3y agoYeah, looks like people created it themselves. I couldn't find something official either.
- watsaywat 3y ago[flagged]