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AI agents for Hacker News

Read Hacker News, no key needed: the current top, new, best, Ask HN, Show HN and job stories, any story or comment with its score and replies, full-text search of every story and comment since 2007.

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What your agents can do in Hacker News

Read Hacker News, no key needed: the current top, new, best, Ask HN, Show HN and job stories, any story or comment with its score and replies, full-text search of every story and comment since 2007 (by relevance or newest first, filtered by points, comments, author or date), a story's comments, and a user's karma and bio.

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Look things up. Nothing changes.

  • Get the front page

    Returns the stories on the Hacker News front page now, as search hits.

  • List story IDs

    Returns the IDs of the current top (up to 500), new (500), best (500), Ask HN (200), Show HN (200) or job (200) stories in result, in ranked order.

  • Get a story or comment

    Returns one item by ID: type (story, comment, job, poll or pollopt), by (author), time (Unix seconds), title, url, text (HTML), score, descendants (comment count), kids.

  • Search stories and comments

    Full-text search of Hacker News, best match first (then points, then comments), or newest first with newest_first.

  • Get a story's comments

    Returns the comments on one story, newest first, as hits with comment_text (HTML), author, created_at, objectID and parent_id.

  • Get a user

    Returns a Hacker News user's username, karma and about (their bio, HTML).

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Create, change or send.

This tool only reads, so nothing in it changes.

Read only

Every action here only reads, so an agent can look things up in Hacker News but cannot change anything there.

Connection

How it connects

Connect it once in the console, then give it to the agents and workflows that need it.

No setup needed

Nothing to set up: it reads public data, so there is no account or key.

Kept safe

  • Credentials are stored encrypted with your organization's own keys.
  • They are opened only by the process that makes the call, at the moment it runs, and never go into a prompt or the browser.
  • Calls go only to the tool's own servers.

How we protect your data

Ideas

Ideas to start with

Starting points made only from the actions above. Mix them with any other tool your agents can use.

  • 01

    Ask about your Hacker News data

    Ask a question in plain words. The agent can get the front page, list story IDs or get a story or comment in Hacker News, then answers with what it found.

  • 02

    Share what it finds in Slack

    Give one agent Hacker News and Slack: it can get the front page in Hacker News and post a summary to a Slack channel in the same run.

  • 03

    Run it as a workflow step

    Add "Get the front page" to a workflow, and it runs in Hacker News the same way every time, with or without an agent.

FAQ

Hacker News and MyDeepAgents

Can MyDeepAgents connect to Hacker News?

Yes. The Hacker News connector has 6 actions, all of which only read. Your agents can call them as tools, and your workflows can run them as steps.

How do I connect Hacker News?

Nothing to set up: it reads public data, so there is no account or key.

Can an agent change data in Hacker News without asking?

No. Every Hacker News action only reads, so an agent can look things up there but cannot change anything.

Can I use Hacker News in workflows as well as agents?

Yes. Every Hacker News action also works as a step in a workflow, and the same connection serves your agents and your workflows.

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Put Hacker News to work

Connect it in a few minutes, give an agent the actions it needs, and decide which changes wait for a person.

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