Ask HN: Are people manually doing this?

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Prefixing the title with Ask HN and Show HN? Is that a convention here?

I also notice some posts, end up on Ask/Show...so is there an algorithm behind that?

Ps: just a noob asking...

That's the naming convention used to categorize the Show and Ask section. You simple prefix the title of the post with either 'Ask HN:' or 'Show HN:' and leave the URL field empty, if you want to create such a thread.

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