Social Hackernews

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: General · Sub-category: general-misc

Ground-truth 2026 playbook for submitting and commenting on Hacker News. Covers the reverse-engineered ranking formula, the five post types (Show HN, Ask HN, Launch HN, Tell HN, regular submission) with their exact title conventions, the mandatory first-comment pattern for Show HN, moderation (flags, vouches, mailing the mods), voting-ring detection, and how to write titles that don't read as marketing. Activate when drafting anything for Hacker News.

What this skill does

Social Hackernews is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the general-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/social-hackernews/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The Social Hackernews skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/social-hackernews
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/social-hackernews/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/social-hackernews/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/social-hackernews/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/social-hackernews/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\social-hackernews\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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