Convert Hacker News to Markdown
Hacker News discussions are pure text with threaded comments. Web2MD extracts the discussion thread in a readable, structured Markdown format.
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3 free/dayPaste a Hacker News link and get clean Markdown in seconds.
How to Convert
- 1Install the Web2MD extension from the Chrome Web Store
- 2Navigate to the Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com) page you want to convert
- 3Click the Web2MD icon in your browser toolbar
- 4Click "Copy page as Markdown" — clean Markdown is now in your clipboard
Hacker News Conversion Tips
- •Captures the linked article and top comments
- •Preserves comment threading
- •Useful for AI analysis of tech community opinions
FAQ
How do I summarize a Hacker News thread with AI?
Paste the Hacker News item URL (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=...) into Web2MD. It captures the submission plus the nested comment tree as structured Markdown, preserving reply depth, then you paste that into ChatGPT or Claude and ask for a summary. This beats pasting the link, since HN comments load as a flat table that models struggle to interpret.
Does Web2MD keep the comment nesting from Hacker News?
Yes. The threading is preserved with indentation so an AI can tell which reply belongs to which parent — important when you want the model to trace an argument or find the strongest counterpoint in a long thread.
Can I convert just the top comments instead of the whole thread?
Web2MD captures the full thread; you then keep the top-level or highest-signal comments when you paste into your AI. Because everything is Markdown, trimming to the parts you want is a quick copy-paste rather than re-scraping the page.
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