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Hacker News QR Code Generator for Your HN Profile

The HN profile URL is a query string nobody is going to type. Encode it once and hand people a scan instead — useful at meetups, hackathons and on a badge.

1. Enter your username

Example: news.ycombinator.com/user

2. Pick a platform

Colour
Shape
Modules
Corners
Logo & caption
Scan check: ready
  • Contrast 19.6:1 — comfortably above the 3:1 cameras need
  • Logo covers 22% — error correction raised to H to cover it
  • 4-module quiet zone included in every download

Type your username to see your QR code.

Logo-safe: still scans with the icon on top

Free forever — the code never expires and has no scan limit.

QR pack — every platform at once

One username, one image: pick the platforms you're on and download a labelled sheet for your media kit, stall or packaging.

Enter your username above to enable the pack.

Own the link your code points at

Your QR code points at a platform. yourname.com points at you.

Platforms rename handles, change domains and lose accounts � and every printed code goes with them. A domain you own never changes, so you can point it wherever you like and reprint nothing.

  • Reprint-proof: change the destination, keep the code
  • A link that looks like a business, not a username
  • Ready for a shop, a newsletter or email on your name
  • Most short .com names go within days of going free

Grab it before someone else does

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How to make a Hacker News QR code

1

Enter your HN username

Type your Hacker News username exactly as it appears on your profile — it's case-sensitive.

2

Check the link

We build news.ycombinator.com/user?id=yourname, the address of your profile.

3

Style it

Choose colours, module shape, and whether to put the Hacker News icon in the middle.

4

Download

PNG for screens, SVG for print. The code is static, so it works forever.

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The least typeable URL on this list

news.ycombinator.com/user?id=yourname is a question mark, an equals sign and a domain most people spell wrong on the first try. It is, in other words, the perfect candidate for a QR code — there is no realistic scenario where someone types it off a badge correctly.

The audience makes it worth doing. HN usernames carry weight at hackathons, founder events and technical meetups, where "I'm the one who wrote that comment" is a real introduction. A code on a badge or a slide turns that into a profile someone can actually open.

Keep it minimal. HN is a plain site and a plain code suits it: black, square modules, no logo. It's also the most reliable combination for a small badge print, which is where these usually end up.

Everything happens in your browser. The QR encoder is built into this page, so your username is never sent to a server, nothing is logged, and there's no daily limit. The code is static — the link lives in the pattern itself, with no redirect service in the middle that can expire, start charging or go down.

Social QR code FAQs

Quick answers to the most common questions.

Type your HN username above. The tool builds news.ycombinator.com/user?id=yourname and gives you a PNG or SVG. No login, no account, no tracking.

Yes. Hacker News usernames are case-sensitive, so copy yours exactly as it appears on your profile or the code lands on a missing user.

Yes — use "Any link" and paste the item URL. Those links are stable, so they're safe to encode.

Because the URL is longer — a query string adds characters, and more characters means more modules. Printing it slightly larger keeps it just as easy to scan.

Yes — every code, style and download, with no account, watermark or scan limit. The codes are static, so they don't depend on our servers and keep working even if you never come back to this page.

No. The link is encoded in the pattern rather than pointing at a redirect service, so there's nothing to renew and no scan cap. The only thing that breaks a code is changing or deleting the Hacker News account it points at.

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