HN to MD
Your Hacker News threads. Ready to work.
Hacker NewsKeep the conversation as readable source material.
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Conversion details & limits
Hacker News to Markdown Converter
Save a public Hacker News discussion as a readable Markdown document. HN to MD keeps the opening post and available replies together with their discussion context.
One public discussion per request. Large threads are bounded; deleted, unavailable, or unreadable comments cannot be recovered.
01 / How it works
Hacker News to Markdown: read a discussion in context
The converter reads the public thread data and keeps the post and comment structure useful outside the website. It preserves readable reply text and the context that connects a reply to its parent. This is especially useful for Ask HN discussions, technical explanations, launch feedback, and research notes where isolated comments would lose their meaning.
02 / What you get
Use the thread link, not the linked article
Paste a news.ycombinator.com/item?id=… link and click Fetch. Markovo reads that discussion, shows its extracted word count and Credit estimate, and converts it after confirmation. If you want the article discussed by the thread, import its own URL separately. Linked sites have their own access and content boundaries. This keeps the scope of each conversion clear and avoids silently fetching a chain of related pages.
03 / Source details
Check large or changing conversations
Thread exports are bounded to at most 50 reply nodes and may not contain every comment in a large discussion. Deleted and unavailable entries stay unavailable. Before quoting or summarizing a conversation, compare its structure and important passages with the original. Distinguish the post author from commenters and remember that votes, replies, and moderation can change after the snapshot was taken. Keep the source link with your notes for later review.
HN to MD: what converts cleanly, what needs review.
Story plus comment tree converts to nested Markdown — the discussion structure is the point, so we keep the threading instead of flattening it away.
The discussion converts to Markdown — title, link and comment structure kept as nested hierarchy.
Large threads are bounded by a 50-reply-node limit — check the original thread when complete coverage matters.
Deleted or missing entries are not reconstructed — the snapshot shows what the API returns.
A thread link reads the discussion only — convert the article's public URL separately if you need its content too.
Format references: Hacker News API · CommonMark.
Hacker News to MD questions
Is HN to MD the same as Hacker News to Markdown?
Yes. HN to MD is the abbreviated name for saving a Hacker News discussion in a Markdown (.md) file. One page handles both names for the same conversion.
Does it also fetch the linked article?
No. A thread link reads the discussion. Import the article’s public URL separately when you need its content as well.
Will a large discussion include every reply?
Not necessarily. The request has a 50-reply-node limit, and missing or deleted entries are not reconstructed. Review the original thread if complete coverage is important.
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