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Re:Firecracker v1.0 Released by ciprian_craciun on Monday January 31, 2022 @10:37AM (#30149116)
About this `Show HN` tag...

I, apparently wrongly, interpret this tag as "here is an interesting open-source project that seems to have been overlooked".

Perhaps it would be nice to have a new tag so one can easily discern between "just another article" and "an open-source project".

For example my main interaction with HN is to find new and interesting tools and projects, and such a tag would be very helpful for me.

Any thoughts? How should I tag such links in the future?

Re:Firecracker v1.0 Released by ignoramous on Monday January 31, 2022 @11:30AM (#30149850)
> Any thoughts? How should I tag such links in the future?

One does not necessarily tag such submissions. A link to the page with the title unedited (edited iff the title is inadequate or is a clickbiat), is more than enough.

If you must tag such submissions, Tell HN seems the best suited.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:Firecracker v1.0 Released by pvg on Monday January 31, 2022 @02:34PM (#30153042)
Tell HN is not a good tag for such submissions, the right thing is just not trying to gussy up your submissions - a cornerstone principle of HN. Everything posted to HN is someone telling or showing something, the tags are highly specialized. If unsure, just don't use the tags.