Ask HN: How does a post become an Ask HN?
If you go to the official Ask page (https://news.ycombinator.com/ask), you see a collection of Ask HN posts.
But there's many more Ask HN submissions if you use the search: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastWeek&page=0&prefix=fal...
Most of those never actually end up in the "real" Ask HN section and die quiet, lonely deaths.
What determines if a submission actually becomes a real Ask HN?
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 21.5 ms ] threadThere are 2-upvote posts like this one in the official section: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41427814
But posts with 5 upvotes that never make it to the section, like: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41449007 or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41437736
Is there some additional curation going on?
Why hasn't my submission appeared on Ask HN or Show HN?
All Ask HNs appear on /newest and /asknew, and all Show HNs on /newest and /shownew, but there is a small points threshold before a post makes it to /ask or /show.