Ask HN and Show HN

Posted by pkc_official on Monday July 10, 2023 @04:36AM
from the ask-hn dept.

How does posting to the different HN categories work? I see some posts in Show HN and Ask HN that don’t start with those strings, so wondering how do they get added to those categories respectively?

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Re:Ask HN and Show HN by jjgreen on Monday July 10, 2023 @04:40AM (#36663589)

Click submit, add "Ask HN:" to the start of your title, leave the URL blank, write your question in the text box.

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Re:Ask HN and Show HN by pkc_official on Monday July 10, 2023 @04:43AM (#36663595)

How did this one show in Ask HN? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36656331 (just an example, there are more without “Ask HN”

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Re:Ask HN and Show HN by chromoblob on Monday July 10, 2023 @05:09AM (#36663804)

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html (the link is at the bottom of most HN pages)

> What are Ask HN and Show HN?

> Ask HN lists questions and other text submissions. Show HN is for sharing your personal work and has special rules.

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Re:Ask HN and Show HN by jjgreen on Monday July 10, 2023 @04:49AM (#36663643)

That would need a response from the site devs.

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Re:Ask HN and Show HN by beardyw on Monday July 10, 2023 @04:56AM (#36663703)

Well, looking at ../show they all start with "Show HN". Those in ../ask are a bit less uniform. So I guess that if it doesn't have a URL and doesn't start "Show HN" it is "Ask HN". I may be wrong.

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