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?