I've noticed that many threads carry titles starting with Ask HN, Show HN etc.
Is this a kind of de-facto / voluntary standard or something else? Those 'in the know' please throw some light.
Edit: Someone also please list all such prefixes commonly in use.
Speaking for myself, I'm new to this forum, but not to hacker-culture per se, that I started acquiring long before ER wrote the famous 'hacker-how-to' piece, as an Electronics hobbyist starting 1981, moving on to Ham Radio (VU2VKI) and finally to computers and software (1982/83).
The reason why I started this thread was to find the most suitable title for another thread I was about to start, offering a free web API that many here could benefit from.
Since I failed to find help, I 'rolled my own' (blame it on my hacker spirit ;-)) and went with:
Offer HN: Announcing free geolocation web API http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2255089
> the best way is to spend time here.
... time which could perhaps be better spent developing more tools which could be of use to many here. (Not that I don't enjoy spending time here.)
> Conventions, like slang, are developed organically, and organically is the only way to learn to use them fluently.
Although I have no urgent or pressing need to do this, I fully intend to do so in due course.
Stay well; wish you all the best.