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

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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.

Articles & Blogposts

2026-09-23 Drew DeVault: Why is Hacker News like that? (archived)
2022-09-15 Tom MacWright: Hacker News

Writing for the Hacker News audience makes my writing worse.

2022-07-10 Ruben Schade: Why I tend to avoid reading social news comments
2019-10-27 @Jowanza : twitter post (archived)
- "Sharing the project I worked on for months on hacker news video"
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?
Example of what simple infrastructure (1 server, 5.5M page views daily) can do: HN comment, HN comment
- "Does HN still run on a single server? [1]
  [1] [context]" @wenc October 10, 2018

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
zacharykaiwrites -- submissions

Posts mentioning “indieweb”

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2026-01-02 POSSE
- find others by searching for “indieweb site:news.ycombinator.com”

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