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Hacker News · 100 entries · platform-specific
100 HN attention slots — categories, search lanes, leaderboards, adjacent feeds.
HN doesn't have 100 'voices' the way Reddit does — it has attention slots. Each slot here is a category (Show HN: AI infra), a saved Algolia search lane, a leaderboard surface, or an adjacent digest. Together they form the literal HN attention map.
Cadence
Account is currently on hold (blocked from submitting / commenting). Read-only across all 100 slots until the account ban resolves. Search-lane monitoring runs daily; front-page archive runs weekly.
Platform rule
When the ban resolves: never submit a top-level Show HN of our own product. Submit only data-ground-truth artefacts (CC BY 4.0 dataset, SSRN paper, methodology doc). Comments allowed on any thread that asks a real engineering-velocity question.
Engagement status · 100 entries
4
Engage
Active engagement layer — we comment, post, or integrate.
28
Watch
Monitoring only — we read the signal, don't post.
0
Hold
Engagement paused. Listed for transparency.
68
Read
Read-only consumption. No engagement layer (or we choose not to).
0
Blocked
Cannot engage — platform constraint, anonymity rule, or policy.
The literal roster
Sorted by attention priority (top of list = most active surface). Engage-tagged entries are where the Tue / Fri cycle lives.
Where new orgs first surface to engineer-investor traffic.
Account currently blocked from posting (per memory). Read-only at the moment.
Where new agent / inference / model orgs land first.
Data-platform launches. Lineage / dbt / catalog orgs.
Generic devtool launch surface.
Open-source launches. Highest GitHub-org-spike correlation.
Monthly 'who is hiring' surface. Hiring-wave proxy.
Engineer-side counterpart to hiring threads.
Contractor-side market signal.
Platform-itself discussion. Useful for tone calibration.
Where YC-cohort orgs introduce themselves to HN.
DB-momentum threads — Neon / Supabase / Postgres.AI cohort.
MCP ecosystem chatter. Our category.
Claude / Sonnet / Opus release threads.
OpenAI release-cycle threads.
Frontend-platform threads. Vercel-orbit ecosystem.
Edge-platform threads.
Model-hub launches and dataset releases.
YC-related threads — alumni, demo day, batch lists.
Fundraise announcements. Our prediction ground truth.
Later-stage rounds. Pattern memory.
Inference-infra orgs surface here first.
Pinecone / Weaviate / Qdrant / Lance ecosystem.
Agent-framework launches and comparisons.
Open-weight model releases.
Devtool fundraises — our Series-A prediction surface.
Sourcegraph / Greptile / similar orgs.
Observability-platform threads.
DX-focused tooling threads.
Edge-platform threads. Cloudflare / Fly / Vercel orbit.
WASM-runtime threads.
High-karma archetype set. Read for tone, never reply directly.
Front-page rotation pattern. Time-of-week / time-of-day signal.
Pattern memory — what front-pages over decades.
Top-of-all-time archive. Tone reference.
Highest-engagement Ask HN threads.
Highest-engagement Show HN threads.
Real-time submissions. Pre-front-page ranking signal.
Comment-velocity surface. What's heating up now.
YC-portfolio hiring map. Hiring-velocity proxy.
Founder-archetype primer.
Pattern memory for our category-naming.
Metric-design discussion lane.
DX / engineering-productivity threads.
OSS-monetisation threads. Commercialisation pattern.
VC-discussion lane on HN. Watch for thesis flips.
Angel-investor avatar threads.
Side-project threads. Hobby-to-startup pipeline.
Idea-generation threads. Tone reference.
Devtool-market sizing discussions.
Anyone discussing prediction methodology — pattern memory.
Curated startup-school content surface.
Live YC alumni list — back-checks our predictions.
Batch-launch threads. Engineering-velocity confirmation.
Cohort-by-cohort demo-day recap threads.
Weekly digest. Catches what the daily firehose misses.
Curated weekly recap.
Comment-thread highlights.
Programmatic search. Drives our HN-thread monitor.
Items / users / max-id endpoints.
Full-history HN data. Cross-references our methodology.
Alternative front-pages. Different ranking surfaces.
Refind's HN-discovery layer.
Recurring side-project thread.
Annual reflection threads.
Email-side curation. Catches threads we missed.
Devtool-curation digest. HN-adjacent attention layer.
Independent devtool review. HN-adjacent reach.
Dev.to trending. Cross-pollinates with HN attention.
Smaller, higher-signal HN-alternative.
HN-style discussion alternative. Smaller but high-signal.
Data-science HN-clone. Sector-specific attention.
Devtool-specific HN-clone.
Medium-side counterweight to HN attention.
Cross-platform attention layer.
Anyone analysing commit graphs publicly.
Star-count debate threads — pattern memory.
Reproducibility threads — adjacent positioning.
Phrase-level pattern memory.
Dataset-release threads. Cross-confirms our methodology.
Agent-native discussion lane.
Avatar-naming pattern memory.
Series A data-driven discussion threads.
GitHub trending-related discussions.
Maintainer-economics threads.
EM-side threads. Adjacent buyer-archetype.
CTO-archetype threads.
Hiring-velocity-narrative threads.
Pricing-strategy threads. Cross-references our pricing audit.
Benchmark-discussion lane.
Bus-factor / contributor-diversity discussions.
Monorepo-strategy threads.
Editor / OS / language polls. Decade-pattern memory.
Editor's hand-picked timeless threads.
Where dang's tone-rules surface.
Comment-quality north star.
Platform-rules pattern memory.
Show HN-specific format rules.
Hiring-thread tone rules.
Front-page algorithm pattern memory.
Alternative top-of-time ranking.
How to use this roster
We don’t guard our infiltration plan because it doesn’t scale by secrecy — it scales by repetition. If a developer-investor wants to mirror the same Hacker Newsattention map, that’s net positive: the conversation gets denser, the dataset gets cleaner, and the answer to the same question on each platform converges. We’ll still ship the free Acceleration Watch on Mondays.
The Hacker News roster is regenerated quarterly. Status flags update weekly when engagement state changes. Companion mixed list at /target-list.