Submit what hackers find interesting.

Sometimes your blog is interesting.

Sometimes not.

Quality matters.

Karma matters little.

Duplicates happen.

Upvotes mark agreement or approval, not truth.

Downvotes mark disagreement or disapproval, not human worth.

Cite the original source.

Don’t editorialize.

Unless editorialization cultivates quality.

Asterisks italicize; indentation preformats; blank lines paragraph.

Flag, rather than comment about, inappropriate submissions.

Hacker News is not Y Combinator.

Nor Reddit, Digg, or StackOverflow.

Comment constructively.

Submit moderately.

Meta-discuss sparingly.