Hacker News Guidelines

What to Submit

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes
more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence,
the answer might be: anything that gratifies one’s intellectual
curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless
they’re evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of
pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they’d cover it on
TV news, it’s probably off-topic.

In Submissions

Please don’t do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase
or exclamation points, or saying how great an article is. It’s
implicit in submitting something that you think it’s important.

Please submit the original source. If a post reports on
something found on another site, submit the latter.

If the title includes the name of the site, please take it out,
because the site name will be displayed after the link.

If you submit a video or pdf, please warn us by appending
or [pdf] to the title.

If the title contains a gratuitous number or number + adjective,
we’d appreciate it if you’d crop it. E.g. tran