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This site is not affiliated with YCombinator or Hacker News.

This service lets you add a single character to Hacker News links to add social media and OpenGraph previews for sharing on things like Slack or Discord or Twitter or Teams. Read more about it in the Hacker News announcement here.

Slack App

Install the Slack application to automatically get previews (unfurls) for news.ycombinator.com links.

Add to Slack

It looks like this:

screenshot of Slack integration

Discord / Twitter / Manual Usage

Simply add a 1 to your Hacker News link, such as https://news.ycombinator1.com/item?id=30167605, and you'll see a rich preview instead of a plain URL.

On Slack you'll see:

Slack preview of story

...or for a comment:

Slack preview of comment

On Discord you'll see:

Discord preview

On Twitter you'll see:

Twitter preview

Powered by Vercel and the Hacker News API.

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