Hackernoon

HackerNoon is an independent technology publishing platform and community CMS, founded in 2016 by David Smooke and headquartered in Edwards, Colorado. It operates a free, open library of more than 150,000 practitioner-authored, human-edited technology stories from 35,000+ contributing engineers, covering AI, software engineering, Web3, cybersecurity, startups and science, and serves roughly 3-4 million monthly readers. The company builds and open-sources the publishing software behind the site — the Chowa collaborative editor, the Pixel Icon Library, the HackerNoon pixel font and the Editing Protocol — and monetises through business blogging credits, targeted ads, newsletters and AI content licensing. HackerNoon publishes no public API: probed on 2026-08-22, it serves no OpenAPI, GraphQL, MCP or A2A surface. Its machine-readable surface is a content and AI-access one — an llms.txt, a per-crawler robots.txt policy, RSS feeds and sitemaps — with a "live content feed API" advertised in llms.txt as coming in Q3 2026 and not yet shipped.

Hackernoon is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Media, Publishing, Content, and Technology.

Hackernoon’s developer surface includes engineering blog, signup flow, pricing, support, and 16 more developer resources.

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17.2/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

0 APIs

Company Media Publishing Content Technology Developer CommunityAI LicensingOpen-Source Syndication Content Licensing

Kin Score

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scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

Composite quality — 17.2/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.0 / 20

Access Clarity 4.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13

Contract Governance 2.2 / 12

Discoverability 5.7 / 10

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Hackernoon Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Hackernoon Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Hackernoon Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp

SignUp

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

WellKnownProbe

WellKnownProbe

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Components

Components

Conformance

Conformance

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

Support

Support

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

SecondaryMarketListing

SecondaryMarketListing

Source (apis.yml)

aid: hackernoon
name: Hackernoon
description: 'HackerNoon is an independent technology publishing platform and community CMS, founded in 2016 by David Smooke
  and headquartered in Edwards, Colorado. It operates a free, open library of more than 150,000 practitioner-authored, human-edited
  technology stories from 35,000+ contributing engineers, covering AI, software engineering, Web3, cybersecurity, startups
  and science, and serves roughly 3-4 million monthly readers. The company builds and open-sources the publishing software
  behind the site — the Chowa collaborative editor, the Pixel Icon Library, the HackerNoon pixel font and the Editing Protocol
  — and monetises through business blogging credits, targeted ads, newsletters and AI content licensing. HackerNoon publishes
  no public API: probed on 2026-08-22, it serves no OpenAPI, GraphQL, MCP or A2A surface. Its machine-readable surface is
  a content and AI-access one — an llms.txt, a per-crawler robots.txt policy, RSS feeds and sitemaps — with a "live content
  feed API" advertised in llms.txt as coming in Q3 2026 and not yet shipped.'
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-02'
  method: derived
image: https://cdn.hackernoon.com/images/hn.webp
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hackernoon/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-22'
modified: '2026-08-22'
tags:
- Company
- Media
- Publishing
- Content
- Technology
- Developer Community
- AI Licensing
- Open-Source
- Syndication
- Content Licensing
tags_raw:
- Company
- Media
- Publishing
- Content
- Technology
- Developer Community
- AI Licensing
- Open Source
- Syndication
- Content Licensing
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/hackernoon-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://hackernoon.com
- type: Blog
  url: https://hackernoon.com
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://hackernoon.com/feed
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/hackernoon
- type: SignUp
  url: https://hackernoon.com/p/publish
- type: Pricing
  url: https://business.hackernoon.com/business-blogging
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://hackernoon.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://hackernoon.com/privacy
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.hackernoon.com
- type: Support
  url: https://help.hackernoon.com
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/hackernoon-llms.txt
- type: Packages
  url: packages/hackernoon-packages.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/hackernoon-components.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/hackernoon-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/hackernoon-lifecycle.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/hackernoon-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/hackernoon-rate-limits.yml
- type: WellKnownProbe
  url: well-known/hackernoon-well-known.yml
- type: SecondaryMarketListing
  url: https://www.hiive.com/securities/hackernoon-stock
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-22'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 10
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no-developer-program
  detail: HackerNoon is a publisher, not an API provider — it runs no developer portal and its own llms.txt lists a "Live
    content feed API" as coming in Q3 2026, so the only machine-readable surfaces are llms.txt, robots.txt, RSS and sitemaps.
  evidence:
  - url: https://hackernoon.com/llms.txt
    status: 200
  - url: https://hackernoon.com/openapi.json
    status: 308
  - url: https://api.hackernoon.com/openapi.json
    status: 403
  - url: https://hackernoon.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://hackernoon.com/ai-licensing
    status: 308
  checked: '2026-08-22'

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