hacker-news-strategy SKILL.md skillA
hacker-news-strategy from jonathimer/devmarketing-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jonathimer/devmarketing-skills/hacker-news-strategy@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jonathimer/devmarketing-skills
- Path
skills/hacker-news-strategy/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Mar 3, 2026
- Size
- 10,862 bytes
- Repository stars
- 87
- License
- MIT
When the user wants to promote on Hacker News, launch on HN, or understand what works on HN. Trigger phrases include "Hacker News," "HN post," "Show HN," "HN strategy," "getting upvotes on HN," "HN launch," or "why did my HN post die.".
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Hacker News Strategy Hacker News is the most influential developer community — and the easiest to get wrong. This skill covers what actually works, what gets you flagged, and how to build authentic presence. --- ## Before You Start 1. Read `.agents/developer-audience-context.md` if it exists 2. Check if the product/content is genuinely interesting to HN's audience (hackers, founders, deep tech enthusiasts) 3. Be honest: HN users can smell marketing from miles away --- ## Understanding HN's Culture ### Who's Actually on Hacker News | Segment | What they care about | |---------|---------------------| | Founders | Fundraising, growth tactics, startup war stories | | Senior engineers | Deep technical content, architecture, systems | | Tech leads | Engineering management, team scaling, processes | | Indie hackers | Solo projects, bootstrapping, revenue | | Researchers | AI/ML, distributed systems, PLT, security | ### What HN Values - **Technical depth** over marketing polish - **Genuine novelty** over incremental updates - **Transparency** over corporate speak - **Building in public** over stealth launches - **Contrarian insights** over conventional wisdom …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jonathimer/devmarketing-skills/hacker-news-strategy@sha256:c7c44d84bb843ccaThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_k444js7p3ilt32lw)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Mar 3, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (10862 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
jonathimer/devmarketing-skills · 87 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-03-03 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_k444js7p3ilt32lw GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jonathimer/devmarketing-skills/hacker-news-strategy GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c7c44d84bb843cca493108fd1e8ba9e56599c3412962894066eaa0721b6bb9ad
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.