Hack Club strikes a promotion deal with Hacker News
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Not a "promotion deal" - that's way too strong a term, plus it feels ickily corporate. Who wants a "promotion deal"? Yuck.
But yes, we are in touch with the Hack Club people and are delighted to help turn some of the amazing creative work their kids are coming up with into decent Show HNs. I'm sure everyone can agree that a project like this one deserves some support:
Show HN: MyraOS – My 32-bit operating system in C and ASM (Hack Club project) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45715055 - Oct 2025 (55 comments)
There's no guarantee anything will "go viral" of course—that's up to the community. But we're happy to help the creators do their writeups in a way that fits HN's conventions. HN can be inscrutable to outsiders, and kids are by definition outsiders since they haven't been around for years to absorb the vibes.
(and btw, the same goes for any student or young person working on a project that the HN community might find cool and enjoy discussing)
But yes, we are in touch with the Hack Club people and are delighted to help turn some of the amazing creative work their kids are coming up with into decent Show HNs. I'm sure everyone can agree that a project like this one deserves some support:
Show HN: MyraOS – My 32-bit operating system in C and ASM (Hack Club project) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45715055 - Oct 2025 (55 comments)
There's no guarantee anything will "go viral" of course—that's up to the community. But we're happy to help the creators do their writeups in a way that fits HN's conventions. HN can be inscrutable to outsiders, and kids are by definition outsiders since they haven't been around for years to absorb the vibes.
(and btw, the same goes for any student or young person working on a project that the HN community might find cool and enjoy discussing)
Thanks for chiming in to provide some clarity, Dan. Any comments on this?
> it will be manually boosted in the algorithm by them.
The intentions are of course good, but a little transparency around these manual boosts would be appreciated.
> it will be manually boosted in the algorithm by them.
The intentions are of course good, but a little transparency around these manual boosts would be appreciated.
They're just talking about the second-chance pool (SCP): see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308.
This was an announcement made within the Hack Club Slack about their hardware program Blueprint (https://blueprint.hackclub.com/)