HN Submission Guidelines

Comments advise on proper Hacker News posting practices, such as prefixing titles with 'Ask HN' or 'Tell HN', emailing [email protected] for questions or announcements, and following site guidelines to avoid misuse.

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Sample Comments

Kinnard Jul 25, 2016 View on HN

You may want to prepend an "Ask HN" . . . Might not get noticed otherwise

mtmail Jul 24, 2018 View on HN

"Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Instead, please send it to [email protected]. "https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

QuantumGood Nov 30, 2013 View on HN

You might want to repost as Ask HN: etc

Phithagoras Jul 26, 2016 View on HN

You could re submit it as an Ask HN. It's likely the community would enjoy this

wglb Jul 27, 2014 View on HN

Requests to the moderator are more likely to be seen if you email to [email protected] with your request.

gus_massa Jan 26, 2017 View on HN

Try emailing the mods [email protected] , they usually reply sooner because this threads are sometime unnoticed.

chmaynard Nov 4, 2018 View on HN

This seems like an abuse of the Ask HN convention. Please write a blog post and post a link to it. Thanks!

gnabgib Apr 17, 2024 View on HN

"Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something. Send it to [email protected]."[0][0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

zihotki Aug 31, 2022 View on HN

This submission should probably be 'Tell HN:'.

dang Dec 7, 2022 View on HN

This is the kind of thing the site guidelines ask you to email [email protected] about instead of posting about in the threads. Can you do that instead?