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Dev tools · November 24, 2021

Post to HackerNews

Trigger a post to HackerNews from a GitHub event

Post to HackerNews launched on November 24, 2021 with 75 votes, #836 of 2,925 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.

What it does

A Github action to post to news.ycombinator.com based on a github event (eg: git push)

Submit URL to https://news.ycombinator.com

Do not store your login credentials directly in your workflow file. Store them in an encrypted, secure manner. Required The hackernews username you want to post as. Set this in your repository secrets Required The password for the hackernews user. Set this in your repositoryfrom github.com

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    For example, paste this into Slack or Discord or whatever: https://news.ycombinator1.com/item?id=30179549 It works with comments, too: https://news.ycombinator1.com/item?id=30180253 Hastily-developed source: https://github.com/statico/ycombinator1.com

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