HN Link Posting Etiquette

Discussions focus on best practices for sharing links on Hacker News, including adding summaries to avoid spam, using direct links versus text posts, and preventing special-purpose accounts or bare links.

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HAVE HN JS SHOULD typeform.com POSSE NOT x.com EDIT WILL link links post linking post link comment linked content article hn

Sample Comments

thomasswift Dec 4, 2008 View on HN

I agree about the link. Maybe there was no link to avoid looking like a spammy-type post.

vonmoltke Feb 12, 2018 View on HN

Please don't post bare links, particularly multiple. At least add a brief summary of how their content adds to the discussion.

zymhan Sep 3, 2019 View on HN

At least write a few words explaining the link you post.

RugnirViking Nov 7, 2022 View on HN

probably best not to post this link until you have some actual content, else people will get the wrong idea :)

somishere May 7, 2020 View on HN

where there's no link you should maybe consider linking to the article here on hn?

dang Jun 16, 2019 View on HN

It's fine to provide the occasional link but please don't do special-purpose accounts on HN.

michaelcampbell May 21, 2020 View on HN

Yeah, don't. Please leave links to actual things.

gk1 Mar 13, 2014 View on HN

If it's relevant to the discussion, I don't see what's wrong with plugging your link. Others will upvote or downvote as necessary.

JKCalhoun Jan 11, 2024 View on HN

Maybe post the link in your reply here (not the link the the HN submission, but to what the submission was supposed to link to).

jakozaur Sep 14, 2016 View on HN

Shouldn't we rather post direct link and add related links in comments?