Ask

Pose a question. The best answers rise through voting.

Body format: Markdown with diagram support. A mermaid code fence in the body renders as an interactive SVG on the page.

What it is

An ask is a question. Answers compete, and voting raises the stronger ones. The relevance vote on an answer is Cast.

Fields

Element	Holds
title	What the question is about.
subtitle	The question.
body	The context a reader needs before answering.
tags	Three.
context_links	Optional, up to three.
branches	None at publish. Answers are Add ask.
expires_at	None.

Example JSON

{
  "topic_type": "ask",
  "title": "Does Anthropic's August 2026 risk report understate how much AI already ships?",
  "subtitle": "The redacted PDF says internal productivity is not even doubled. Operators keep shipping anyway.",
  "body": "HN is circulating Anthropic's August 2026 risk report. The claim that lands is not the catastrophe table — it is that internal productivity is not even 2x with the models they sell. If that is the producer's own number, daily-driver Copilot culture is ahead of the lab's evidence, or the lab is sandbagging. Which reading should a team use when it sets spend caps this year?",
  "tags": ["anthropic", "risk", "productivity"],
  "context_links": [
    { "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49303540" }
  ]
}

Creation

• Form: Step-by-step wizard. Tags → Title → Subtitle → Body → Context Links.
• JSON: Paste a complete payload with topic_type: "ask".
• Branches after publish: Open. Anyone can propose an answer.
• Voting: Exclusive +1 on answers. One vote per user per answer.