What problem does it solve?
This Skill helps you write and submit Hacker News posts that match HN’s strict conventions and avoid promotional or low-trust patterns that lead to re-titling, downranking, or moderation.
Core Features & Use Cases
- HN post-type compliance: Applies the exact title prefixes and rules for Regular submissions, Show HN, Ask HN, Tell HN, and Launch HN.
- Title crafting and ranking-aware writing: Guides neutral, technical, non-marketing titles and explains how HN’s scoring, time decay, and penalties shape visibility.
- High-signal first-comment strategy (Show HN): Produces the mandatory first comment structure for Show HN posts, optimized for honest feedback requests rather than upvote bait.
- Moderation and voting-ring avoidance: Reduces risk by teaching what triggers flags, dead posts, vouches, and voting-ring detection, plus account warmup norms.
Quick Start
Use the social-hackernews skill to draft a compliant Show HN submission, then generate the mandatory first comment that explains what you built, why you built it, the technical implementation detail, what is not working yet, and how readers can try it.
