Hacker News Reader

It probably warrants it by now. As I understand it, access to the automated script and account has been sent through though before dang took on his role: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2391828

It would be great if the mods could take this over, it's a really useful part of hacker news.

If you need to summon the mods, you can write to hn@ycombinator.com . They usually see most of the threads, but it's impossible to real all of them all the time. So the reply to the email is faster.

> PS. Mods, dang - it'd be nice if you could take over this and make it official, no?

Isn't it already (semi-)official?

> An account named whoishiring is the only one allowed to submit the regular threads. This prevents a race to post them first.

From: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

> Mods, dang - it'd be nice if you could take over this and make it official, no?

Yup. I love that whoishiring started as a user's creation and that it lasted so long as the most informal possible thing, but people have come to depend on these posts.