HN Original Source Guideline

Users and moderators repeatedly enforce Hacker News guidelines by urging submission of original sources over secondary articles reporting on them, often linking to prior discussions and moving comments accordingly.

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Sample Comments

detaro May 6, 2019 View on HN

please submit the original source, not articles reporting about what another site wrote. Also, this is already on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19842817

detaro May 6, 2019 View on HN

please submit the original source, not articles reporting about what another site wrote. Also, this is already on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19842817

dang Apr 30, 2024 View on HN

Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40205714, which was posted earlier and (now) has the original source that all the other articles are reporting on.("Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator

detaro Jan 26, 2016 View on HN

a) This is obviously not the original source articlePlease submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.htmlb) said source is already on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com&#

detaro Sep 13, 2016 View on HN

Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.– https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.htmlthe guardian article already has discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12487108

dang Aug 19, 2023 View on HN

Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37167306, which has the original source this article points to.Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter."https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

dang Jan 10, 2023 View on HN

Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34319979, which has the original source this article points to.Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/

_justin Feb 8, 2015 View on HN

I have read this before, and I see the source is attributed. If so, why is this link on HN and not the original. Seems a way to gather some page hits.

detaro Sep 13, 2016 View on HN

Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter.– https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.htmlThe article clearly links to the source blog post, which already has a discussion on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/it

dang Oct 12, 2022 View on HN

Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33170608, which is the original source and was posted earlier.I've left the comments which were complaining about this article not being that one.Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - <a href="https://news.ycombinato