// Hacker News post generation for Show HN, Ask HN, and submissions. Use when user wants to post to Hacker News or write a Show HN/Ask HN post.
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| description | Hacker News post generation for Show HN, Ask HN, and submissions. Use when user wants to post to Hacker News or write a Show HN/Ask HN post. |
Understand HN culture: Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com) is a community driven by intellectual curiosity and technical depth. It is run by Y Combinator and attracts founders, engineers, researchers, and technically sophisticated readers. The community is allergic to marketing, superlatives, and hype.
Determine post type:
Check for brand voice: Read brand/VOICE.md if it exists, then heavily adapt it using hn-voice.md. HN has the strictest voice requirements of any platform. Marketing language of any kind will get the post flagged, downvoted, or ignored.
Show HN is for sharing your own projects, products, or creations with the community.
Show HN: [Concise description of what it is]
Good titles:
Bad titles:
Every Show HN post should have a top-level comment from the creator. This comment is critical. Use show-hn-template.md for the structure.
The comment should cover:
Ask HN is for questions directed at the community.
Ask HN: [Your question]
Good Ask HN posts:
Bad Ask HN posts:
When submitting a link (blog post, article, paper, tool):
Understanding HN's enforcement culture helps you avoid problems:
Flagged (removed by community or moderators):
Downvoted:
Invisible penalty: flame detection
See hn-voice.md for detailed voice guidance. The essential rules:
Before delivering HN content:
hn-voice.md guidelinesContent studio with brand consistency. Use this skill whenever the user wants to create content — blog posts, social media (X/Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit, HN), presentations (Slidev/Reveal/Spectacle), infographics, image prompts, video scripts (Remotion), editorial calendars, or content audits. Also triggers on brand setup, voice profiling, content repurposing, and content strategy. Covers any request involving writing, publishing, visual content creation, or content planning. Even if the user doesn't say "content" explicitly — if they're asking to write a blog post, create slides, draft a thread, plan a content calendar, or check content quality — use this skill.
Content quality audit with anti-slop detection and brand consistency scoring. Use when user wants to check content quality, audit a draft, score content, verify brand consistency, detect AI-generated patterns, or run a quality check before publishing.
Long-form blog post generation with brand voice integration and anti-slop enforcement. Use when user wants to write a blog post, article, tutorial, case study, opinion piece, deep dive, or listicle.
Editorial calendar planning and content scheduling. Use when user wants to plan a content calendar, create a publishing schedule, organize content across platforms, or plan a content series.
Image prompt engineering for AI image generation models. Use when user wants to generate images, create image prompts, or optimize prompts for DALL-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, or other image generation tools.
Generate SVG and HTML infographics with brand-aware design. Use when user wants to create an infographic, data visualization, process flow, comparison chart, stat card, or visual data summary.