Ask HN: Why I have such bad luck?
The article discusses the challenges faced by a user on Hacker News regarding their posts being flagged or marked dead. It highlights the platform's automated system that detects self-promotion and the importance of adhering to community guidelines. The user is advised to take a break from posting and return with unique, high-quality content to improve their standing in the community.
- ▪The user has experienced submissions being killed off for unclear reasons.
- ▪Hacker News has a sensitive automated system that flags repetitive self-promotion.
- ▪Engaging in off-topic discussions can lead to manual flags from the community.
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Story provenance
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Ycombinator |
| Canonical URL | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48332713 |
| Publication time | Sat, 30 May 2026 04:53:33 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-30T05:12:05.787Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-30T05:12:05.787Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | KOvxkPcQ6K-_ |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
I'm not sure if I've seen a pin either though I've had submissions killed off for no apparent reason I could figure out. [It was truncated files from a server, there's a server issue I should know but forgot about long ago, I'm out of the game since injury a couple decades ago, I only lurk out of interest.]As to your bad luck, I couldn't say it as well as msalihberk already stated, but also add it doesn't hurt to reply to members if they've asked an obvious question. Unfortunately that reply is marked dead so here's the quote of msalihberk below in case you have not set options to see dead posts.> "It looks like you're caught in a feedback loop here.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Ycombinator.