Re:Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conver...
by dang on Thursday March 12, 2026 @01:17PM
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HN is an English-language site. That's one of the many things that's not in the explicit list but is a long-established rule: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....
It's purely for pragmatic reasons. We love other languages and have great admiration for the many community members who participate here despite English not being their first language.
edit to add -- I completely agree with you that when one's English is "good enough," it's much better to read the original rather than an LLMs guess at how to polish it. It's just hard to define what that line is, especially for the poster themselves who has no idea what a native speaker can figure out. Would some posts be removed because they are too difficult to make sense of? Or would they be allowed in their native language?