Hacker News

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Hacker News is (AKA the orange site) a bookmark posting silo as well as a silo for comments on those links, sometimes abbreviated as HN, nicknamed orange site, or German auto-corrected to gackerndes.

Previously Hacker News was described as a link aggregator, however that implies a level of automation which it lacks. Links are manually posted on Hacker News by humans, and thus resemble bookmark posts more than aggregation.

Features

• login
• bookmark posts, which you can then interact with:
  • like - called upvote in their UI.
    • number of likes/upvotes of the post displayed as "points"
  • comment, which you can then interact with:
    • like
      • number of likes of the comment displayed as "points"
    • comment, which you can then interact with again, recursively.

Community Examples

Members of the IndieWeb community who post (what they call "submit") bookmarks and/or comments on/to Hacker News:

• Aaron Parecki submissions, comments
• Jeremy Keith submission
• Ben Werdmüller submissions, comments
• Amber Case submissions,comments
• Kevin Marks comment
• Ryan Barrett comment
• Tom Morris submissions, comments
• Jacky Alciné submissions, comments
•   Jamie Tanna [1], comments submissions from domain

Brainstorming

POSSE to Hacker News

If you post bookmark posts, you could POSSE them to Hacker News, if you have an account there.

If you post to Hacker News, you should consider posting bookmark posts to your own site instead, and then POSSEing to Hacker News.

Examples:

• 2012-10-07 Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/2012/10/07/1/providing-apis-for-content-driven-websites
  • POSSE copy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4624105

POSSE replies to Hacker News

If you post comments on Hacker News, you should consider instead posting a reply on your own site, and then POSSEing that reply to Hacker News.

Examples:

• 2017-06-08 Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/2017/06/08/9/indieweb
  • POSSE copy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14516923

POSSE likes to Hacker News

If you upvote posts or comments on Hacker News, you should consider instead posting like posts on your own site, and then POSSEing those likes as upvotes to Hacker News.

Backfeed responses on Hacker News

If you POSSE to Hacker News, you should also backfeed any responses (replies, votes) back to your original post.

  Jamie Tanna has done some manually, but has considered using https://hnrss.github.io/ to automate it

Bridgy Support

There is no known Bridgy support to POSSE (e.g. bookmark, comment, or like) posts to Hacker News or backfeed responses (yet). Upvote or help implement:

• Bridgy Github: hacker news support: publish, backfeed #693

See Also

• IndieNews
• silo
• comments
• Reddit
• 2019-08-08 The New Yorker: The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News / Can a human touch make Silicon Valley’s biggest discussion forum a more thoughtful place?
• Criticism / humor / metaphorical video: https://twitter.com/jowanza/status/1188489760752357381
  • "Sharing the project I worked on for months on hacker news https://t.co/RcRTMndgAL" @Jowanza October 27, 2019
• Example of what simple infrastructure (1 server, 5.5M page views daily) can do: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23808787 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18184749
  • "Does HN still run on a single server? [1]
    [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5229522" @wenc October 10, 2018
• feeds including firehoses of all comments https://hnrss.github.io/ (code at https://github.com/hnrss)
• Criticism: https://macwright.com/2022/09/15/hacker-news.html
• ^

  Writing for the Hacker News audience makes my writing worse.

• Criticism and why NOT to backfeed from HN: 2022-07-10 Why I tend to avoid reading social news comments
• Unrelated, actual https://thehackernews.com/