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Hacker News Agent

Matches relevant Hacker News stories, weighs community fit and risk, and prepares a thoughtful comment or a Show HN / Ask HN angle — drafted for you to post when the timing is right.

From source to action

This agent reads real signals and turns them into a drafted, scored Growth Action you approve — it never acts on its own.

What it reads

  • Hacker News front page and new stories
  • Technical relevance to your product and positioning
  • Community culture signals and discussion tone
  1. 1

    Match

    Technical relevance

    BIU watches Hacker News for stories where your product, domain, or a technical problem you solve is directly relevant — not just keyword-adjacent.

  2. 2

    Weigh

    Culture + risk

    Each match is scored on community fit and risk: HN rewards substance and punishes thinly-veiled marketing, so low-substance angles are scored down.

  3. 3

    Draft

    You approve + post

    BIU prepares two angles — a substantive comment, or a Show HN / Ask HN post — with notes on timing and credibility. You post manually when it feels right.

An example action

A clearly-illustrative Growth Action for this channel — scored, sourced, and drafted the way it would appear in your queue.

Hacker News · Community

Prepare a comment for a front-page thread on database migrations

Drafted
ImpactMediumIntentMediumEffortLowRiskLow
Draft preview

Share the concrete tradeoff you've seen, with a code-level detail, then mention your tool only as one option among several. Substance first; the HN crowd rewards it and rejects the rest.

HN front-page storyTechnical relevance: migrations

Illustrative example — scores and copy shown for explanation, not a claim about any specific result.

Why BIU surfaced it

The discussion is squarely in your technical wheelhouse and several commenters are hitting a problem your product addresses — a credible, substance-first comment can add real value here.

How it's scored

Hacker News scoring favors technical substance over reach. A story with modest traffic but a direct technical fit and room for a genuinely useful comment outranks a high-traffic thread where anything you add would read as promotion.

How actions are ranked

How the priority score works

Every action is scored on five dimensions. Impact, intent, and confidence raise its rank; effort and risk lower it. The weights below are the model BIU actually uses.

  • Impact+34% weight

    How much this could move growth if it works.

  • Intent+24% weight

    How close the audience is to wanting your product.

  • Confidence+18% weight

    How strong the evidence behind the signal is.

  • Effort12% weight

    How much work it takes — lower is better.

  • Risk12% weight

    Chance of a poor fit or wasted effort — lower is better.

The result is a single ranked queue, so the highest-leverage work sits at the top of your day — with the reasoning attached.

Rules and safety

Nothing ships without your approval.

  • Draft-only. BIU prepares the comment or Show HN post; you post it yourself when the timing is right.
  • Angles are scored for community fit — anything that reads as low-substance marketing is flagged and ranked down.
  • The agent emphasizes thoughtful participation over automation; it will not generate a high volume of low-value comments.

Tracking the result

Track outcomes with a UTM link on anything you share, and record qualitative results — upvotes, a useful reply, traffic from a Show HN. BIU uses what landed to prioritize the kinds of stories and angles that fit your community.

This agent is part of BIU's single shared approval model and is included across plans by usage and credits. See pricing for what each plan includes.

Hacker News Agent — questions

Will BIU post to Hacker News for me?

No. It drafts the comment or Show HN / Ask HN post and leaves the posting and timing to you, from your own account.

How does it respect HN culture?

The agent scores each angle for community fit and substance. Low-substance, promotional drafts are flagged and ranked down, because HN reliably penalizes them.

Does it spam comments?

No. It is built for thoughtful, occasional participation — surfacing the few stories where you can genuinely contribute, not flooding threads.

Turn your website into today's growth actions

Enter your URL and BIU builds your company memory, then finds, drafts, and ranks the work — you approve what ships.