Guide on how to Hacker News:

1. Look at the current popular articles in Hacker News and choose one.

2. Write short blogpost about it which could easily been a comment (but your opinion is much more important and deserves its own golden soapbox)

3. Post said golden soapbox on Hacker News.

4. Steps 1-3 are repeated by someone else posting a rebuttal to your blogpost.