Hacker News

Hacker News

Public read-only access to Hacker News stories, comments, users, and full-text search via the official Firebase and Algolia APIs.

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Connect Hacker News

Free account. No credit card required.

Three ways to use Hacker News

Ask your specialist

Pull data, take actions, or answer questions with this integration, right in a conversation.

Build a workflow

Create automated workflows that trigger on events, run on a schedule, or chain multiple tools together.

Power an app

Use this integration as a data source or action layer behind a dashboard, form, or internal tool.

Supported tools

Actions your AI agents can perform with Hacker News.

Get Ask HN Stories

Get up to 200 latest "Ask HN" story ids.

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Get Best Stories

Get up to 500 best story ids ranked by score over a longer window than the front page.

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Get Item

Fetch a single Hacker News item (story, comment, job, poll, or pollopt) by its numeric id.

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Get Job Stories

Get up to 200 latest job posting ids from Hacker News.

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Get Max Item ID

Get the current largest item id on Hacker News — the watermark for walking backward to discover every item.

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Get New Stories

Get up to 500 newest story ids sorted most-recent first.

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Get started automating Hacker News

01Connect your accountLink your account securely with OAuth or an API key.
02Choose a trigger or toolPick the events and actions your workflow should use.
03Configure the workflowDescribe what you want and your specialist wires it up for you.
04Refine the processTest runs, review output, and tweak until it's right.
05Turn it onSet it live and it runs on a schedule or on events.

Ready-to-use workflows

Prompts using Hacker News

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A Hacker News mention inbox your team actually works throughHacker News Who Is Hiring job board and application trackerSee what Hacker News really thinks of the tools in your stackDaily Show HN competitive intel tracker in NotionTurn Hacker News "Who is hiring?" into HubSpot leadsDaily Hacker News front page archive in Google SheetsDaily Hacker News digest in Slack, filtered to your topicsDaily Hacker News digest in Slack