A minimalist Hacker News client with one-click Markdown & Obsidian export

Hey Product Hunt community! 👋

Like many of you, my daily routine involves opening Hacker News, finding a dozen fascinating tech articles, and opening them in separate browser tabs... where they usually go to die.

To solve my own tab-overload anxiety and help people build their second brains, I built HN Reader. It’s a fast, minimalist web client for Hacker News designed specifically for developers, tech enthusiasts, and digital gardeners.

🚀 What makes it different?

• Clean, Minimalist Feed — Browse Top and New stories without any UI clutter. Pure focus on content.

• One-Click Web Clipper — The killer feature. Click a button on any article, and the site automatically strips out the junk (ads, sidebars, cookie banners) and converts the text into a clean Markdown file.

• Native Obsidian Export — You can download the pristine Markdown file or instantly send it straight into your local Obsidian vault to link, tag, and archive.

🤔 Why use this over a standard browser?

• No Tab Overload: It turns Hacker News from a distraction trap into a streamlined curation tool.

• Perfect for Knowledge Management (PKM): Instead of saving raw URLs to a bookmark folder where they are forgotten, you capture the actual valuable content directly into your personal knowledge base.