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Poper renders public Hacker News submissions from one user, focused on story and job posts.
Hacker News Feed Widget
Hacker News on any website.
Embed a Hacker News user's stories and submissions in 90 seconds, with points, comment counts, and karma. Paste a HN username, free, no code.
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From Hacker News to your site
Your Hacker News feed, now on your domain.
Poper pulls your public Hacker News feed and renders it inline on your website, fully branded to match your design. No API keys, no manual updates.
●news.ycombinator.com
●marcusacme.dev
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How to use it
How to embed a Hacker News feed on your website
Three steps. Under two minutes. No developer needed. No API key, no Y Combinator account, no auth.
- 01Step 1
Enter a Hacker News username
Type a Hacker News username (for example dang) into the source field. Poper instantly previews that user's recent stories and submissions with their points, comment counts, and karma.
- 02Step 2
Pick a layout and theme it
Brand the classic Hacker News story-list layout. Tune the theme preset, accent colors, fonts, header, and post elements to match a dev-tool landing page or an indie maker portfolio.
- 03Step 3
Copy the snippet and embed
Paste the one-line script tag into your site. Works on WordPress, Shopify, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, Ghost, Framer and 250+ platforms.
Works everywhere
Works with every website platform you already use
Drop-in install on WordPress, Shopify, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, Framer, Ghost, and any HTML-friendly stack. No build step, no developer needed.
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Plus 250+ other platforms via the embed snippet. If your site can render a <script> tag, it can render the Hacker News Feed Widget: Embed a Hacker News User's Stories on Any Site.
What you get with Poper Hacker News Feed
Six things that matter when you embed HN on a brand site, not 30 features no one uses.
Public Hacker News content. No auth. Free.
Hacker News is the rarest of social platforms in 2026: a community whose content is fully public, with no login, no API key, and no OAuth required to read it. While Reddit and X both moved to paid API tiers in 2023, gating third-party tools behind quotas and billing, embedding a Hacker News user's stories needs nothing more than a username. Your widget keeps working without ever creating a developer account or worrying about a rate-limit cliff.
A Hacker News user's stories, embedded
Poper renders public Hacker News submissions from one user, focused on story and job posts.
HN user submissions feed
Poper renders public Hacker News submissions from one user, focused on story and job posts.
Points and comment counts on every story
Each story card shows the live Hacker News points and comment count, so visitors see which of your submissions actually gained traction with the HN community.
Karma in the header
The widget header shows the Hacker News username and total karma, so visitors get an at-a-glance signal of the account's standing in the community alongside the story list.
Lightweight embed setup
The embed loads through the Poper snippet. Validate layout and performance on your own page after embedding.
Click through to the full thread
Each story links to its discussion on news.ycombinator.com, so a visitor who wants the full comment thread is one click away from the real Hacker News page.
Use cases
Where Hacker News Feed Widget: Embed a Hacker News User's Stories on Any Site actually moves the needle
Four buyer types who get the most lift from embedding Hacker News Feed Widget: Embed a Hacker News User's Stories on Any Site on their site.
Dev-tool founders
Devs check Hacker News before signing up for any new dev tool. Embed your HN user feed on your homepage so visitors see your submissions and their community traction. Real HN engagement reads more credibly than a polished testimonial.
Tech writers and bloggers
If you submit your posts to Hacker News, embed your HN user feed on your blog so readers see which of your articles drew real discussion. The points and comment counts are honest signals of which pieces landed.
YC-adjacent founders
Poper renders public Hacker News submissions from one user, focused on story and job posts.
Poper vs other platforms
Hacker News has no official embed widget, and the widget-provider platforms that do offer feeds vary widely. Here is how the popular options stack up for a Hacker News user feed.
| Recommended Poper | Elfsight | Common Ninja | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plan details depend on your Poper workspace. | Limited | Limited | |
| No code required | |||
| Dedicated Hacker News user feed | |||
| Points and comment counts on cards | Generic only | Generic only | |
| Karma shown in header | |||
| Classic HN-style story list layout | Generic layouts | Generic layouts | |
| Supported feed layouts: Default and List. | Paid only | Paid only | |
| Paste a username, no auth | Varies | Varies | |
| Remove widget branding | Plan details depend on your Poper workspace. | Higher tiers | Higher tiers |
| Starting paid price | Plan details depend on your Poper workspace. | $6/mo per widget | $5.50/mo |
| Bundled with popups, forms, quizzes |
Comparison reflects publicly listed pricing and features as of 2026. Verify current details on each provider's site.
Real founders. Real HN submissions. Real sites.
Indie hackers, YC founders and tech writers who put HN momentum on their own domain.
Live HN feed embed
“Poper renders public Hacker News submissions from one user, focused on story and job posts.”
Mats Rydberg
Founder · Kernfold (YC W25)
HN submissions surfaced
“Supported feed layouts: Default and List.”
Harper Dunaway
Indie Hacker · Independent
Engagement measured
“I write a tech blog and cross-post to HN when a piece has legs. The widget links each submission to its Hacker News discussion so readers can open the original thread when they want more context. Readers can follow the discussion link without the page promising a separate comments embed.”
Yuki Hashimoto
Tech Writer · substr blog
Pricing
Simple, yearly pricing. Save up to 40%.
All plans are billed yearly. Each card shows the per-month equivalent. Start free, then upgrade only when you need more campaigns, websites, or AI credits.
Yearly billing · save up to 40%Starter
Essential lead capture for solo creators and growing businesses.
$15/mo
billed $180/year
- 5 active campaigns (5 widget instances)
- 1 website, 1,000 leads/mo
- 100+ templates, 10+ display formats
- Smart triggers & basic analytics
- No Poper branding
- 500 AI credits
Pro
Full engagement suite with A/B testing, gamification & unlimited leads.
$29/mo
billed $348/year
- Everything in Starter
- Unlimited campaigns & leads
- 10 websites, 5 team seats
- A/B testing & gamification
- Multi-step forms & quiz builder
- Custom domain (CNAME), 2,000 AI credits
Business
Unlimited everything with white-label, API access & advanced analytics.
$79/mo
billed $948/year
- Everything in Pro
- Unlimited websites & team seats
- White-label (add-on) & API access
- Logic jumps, live quizzes & polls
- Payment forms (Stripe/PayPal)
- Advanced analytics, 5,000 AI credits
Prices shown for the 50k monthly visitor tier on yearly billing. A Free Forever plan ($0) and a custom Enterprise plan are also available. No contracts, cancel anytime.
Guide · 2 min read
The complete guide to embedding Hacker News on your website
Poper renders public Hacker News submissions from one user, focused on story and job posts.
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Poper renders public Hacker News submissions from one user, focused on story and job posts.
Poper renders public Hacker News submissions from one user, focused on story and job posts.
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Ask HN, community discussion, and the long half-life of a great thread
Poper renders public Hacker News submissions from one user, focused on story and job posts.
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Why an embedded HN feed beats a screenshot or a bare link
Poper renders public Hacker News submissions from one user, focused on story and job posts.
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How HN compares, and where the feed fits on your site
Hacker News is one of several discussion-forum surfaces that matter for embedded social proof in 2026, alongside Reddit, Lemmy and the federated Mastodon network. They serve overlapping but distinct audiences. HN is dev, founder, investor and engineer heavy, with strong overlap into the YC ecosystem. Reddit is broader and more vertical-by-subreddit. Lemmy is the federated Reddit alternative and skews toward open-source enthusiasts. Mastodon is real-time conversation rather than threaded discussion. For most product and indie maker sites, a Hacker News user feed plus a Reddit widget plus a sister Dev.to or GitHub activity widget covers the complete tech-credibility surface. The Hacker News widget itself is most useful on the pages where a technical visitor is already paying attention: a product homepage, an indie maker portfolio, an about page, or a personal blog. In each case the pattern is the same. The widget surfaces your Hacker News submissions and their community reception on your own domain, and a click hands the visitor to news.ycombinator.com only for the full thread. Because Hacker News content stays openly readable and the widget refreshes on Poper's sync cycle, every one of those placements stays current with no maintenance.
Quick reference
What is Hacker News Feed Widget: Embed a Hacker News User's Stories on Any Site?
A hacker news feed widget is an embeddable script that pulls a Hacker News user's submitted stories from Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com, Y Combinator's news aggregator) and renders them on a third-party website with supported story metadata and brand-themable styling.
Key facts
- Hacker News was founded in February 2007 by Y Combinator under Paul Graham's direction and runs on a custom Lisp-derivative called Arc.
- Hacker News is moderated by Daniel Gackle (dang) and a small Y Combinator team and is widely regarded as one of the cleanest comment surfaces on the open web.
- Hacker News content is publicly accessible, so a Hacker News feed widget needs only a username, with no login, API key, or OAuth.
- Poper renders public Hacker News submissions from one user, focused on story and job posts.
- Ask HN's monthly 'Who is hiring?' thread has been a primary tech recruiting channel since 2011.
- An embedded Hacker News user feed surfaces a creator's submitted stories with live points and comment counts as durable on-site social proof.
Tutorial
See the Hacker News Feed Widget in action
A quick walkthrough of setting up and embedding this widget.
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