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Show HN

A Hacker News post category where developers share something they built, tagged with a distinct prefix and ranked by community upvotes rather than a curated review process.

also written as Show HN post

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HN Algolia APIA public search API over Hacker News data, built on Algolia's search infrastructure, used by researchers to pull historical Show HN posts at scale.view term

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cited by: 1 post
categories: 1
first used: jul 2026

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Open Source Has a Distribution Problem, Not a Building ProblemOpen source distribution decides whether your project gets found. A one-week census of 106 launches, and the title that scored 154 in one sub and 1 in another.meta-analysis1 min

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