The Unofficial Hacker News FAQ (2011)

Official FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

Official guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The unofficial FAQ has been posted many times before, and some discussions have been useful, but most of the important comments have been incorporated into the document. However, here are some of the previous submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9238539

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6574763

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3084467

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2390712

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1755533 (92 comments)