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Claude Code skills for HN posting, built on 5 years of front page data. Analyze, score, and optimize your Hacker News submissions.

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I analyzed 157K HN posts and built skills with guardrails against BS

by buss_jan·Feb 18, 2026·2 points·0 comments

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The Take

Three practical Claude skills — /hn-score, /hn-spin, and /hn-optimize — bundle headline angles, timing advice, and an 87-point scorecard driven by a 157K-post dataset and a reverse-engineered HN ranking formula. The repo's real cleverness is the HN-specific heuristics (penalty multipliers, flamewar detection, domain performance stats) turned into actionable prompts, not merely another headline generator. It's an MVP that rewards anyone who actually runs Claude and wants data-backed posting playbooks, though it needs more launch-day case studies to prove the claims.

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Target Audience

Indie makers, startup founders, devs and creators who post on Hacker News and care about headlines/timing/strategy

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Three Claude Code skills for HN posting: /hn-score (87-point scorecard), /hn-spin (content angles + outlines), /hn-optimize (headlines + timing). Built from analysis of 157K+ submissions and the top 31 posts from 2021-2026.

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