# Hackernoon

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/hackernoon/  
**Website:** https://hackernoon.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 16.2 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 16.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 18.2 |
| Contract Governance | 18.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 23.7 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 4.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

## Agent readiness — 2.5 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Security (1)

- **Hackernoon Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Hackernoon Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Company, Media, Publishing, Content, Technology, Developer Community, AI Licensing, Open Source, Syndication, Content Licensing

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/hackernoon/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.