You'll probably get flagged as spam if you present your work without context this way, whereas if you follow the conventions of the site, readers will receive it quite differently.<p>To follow the conventions, post as described at <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html</a>. Then add a first comment to the thread giving the backstory of how you came to work on this, and explaining what's different about it. That tends to seed discussion in a good direction.