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Y CombinatorHacker News → Markdown

Convert Hacker News posts to Markdown

Stories and comment trees as readable Markdown. Swap the domain for anypost.md and get clean, LLM-ready Markdown back — no scraping, no copy-paste.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1anypost.md/hackernews/item?id=1
anypost.md/

Swap news.ycombinator.com for anypost.md — that's the whole trick.

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anypost.md/hackernews/item
Y CombinatorHacker News · original
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Hacker News

**Y Combinator** http://ycombinator.com

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# pg (Hacker News)

**Y Combinator**

http://ycombinator.com

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2006-10-09 · Hacker News · [Original post](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1)
1 post1 credit

What you get from a Hacker News conversion

  • Stories and comment trees as readable Markdown
  • Comment threads unrolled — up to 50 with comments=50
  • Story + comments as a flat 10-credit conversion
  • Free tier covers single stories

How to convert Hacker News to Markdown

  1. 1

    Copy the link to the Hacker News post.

  2. 2

    Swap the host for anypost.md — news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1 becomes anypost.md/hackernews/item?id=1.

  3. 3

    Open the URL or call the API and get clean Markdown back, ready for any LLM.

Hacker News to Markdown — FAQ

Can I capture a Hacker News comment thread?
Yes. Turn on Comments and AnyPost returns the story plus its comment tree as nested Markdown lists. Story + comments is a flat 10-credit conversion.
Which Hacker News URLs work?
Any news.ycombinator.com/item?id= link works. Swap the domain for anypost.md to convert it.

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