Hacker News Tools
Built-inHacker News is a tech-focused news aggregator by Y Combinator, featuring user-submitted stories and discussions on startups, programming, and emerging trends
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Pricing and payment
- Pricing
- Free in Loadout. Provider charges may apply when using a personally connected account.
- Unified payment
- No payment is required for the currently listed built-in Actions.
Use Hacker News Tools with AI agents
Aident Loadout lets Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and other supported agents call Hacker News Tools. Choose from 14 supported Actions. Review each execution in Audit. Some supported Hacker News Tools Actions can use Aident-managed access. Other Actions follow the provider setup requirements shown by Loadout.
Included Actions
- Hackernews Get Ask StoriesGet up to 200 latest Ask HN story IDs from Hacker News. Returns an array of item IDs for Ask HN posts in ranked order.
- Hackernews Get Best StoriesGet up to 500 best story IDs from HackerNews ranked by score. Returns story IDs only. Use the returned IDs with get_item_with_id action to fetch full story details.
- Hackernews Get ItemTool to get a Hacker News item by its unique ID from the Firebase API. Use when you need to retrieve details about a specific story, comment, job, poll, or pollopt.
- Hackernews Get Item With IdGet a specific item from Hacker News using its ID. Limits response size to prevent context overflow.
- Hackernews Get Job StoriesGet up to 200 latest job story IDs from Hacker News. Returns an array of item IDs for job postings that can be used to fetch full job details.
- Hackernews Get Latest PostsGet the latest posts from Hacker News based on optional filters. Results can be limited using the size parameter.
- Hackernews Get Max Item IdTool to get the current largest item ID from Hacker News. Use when you need to discover the most recent items or iterate through all items in the system by walking backward from this ID.
- Hackernews Get New StoriesGet up to 500 newest story IDs from Hacker News. Returns an array of item IDs sorted by recency (most recent first). Use these IDs with the Get Item action to retrieve full story details.
- Hackernews Get Show StoriesTool to retrieve up to 200 latest Show HN story IDs from Hacker News. Use when you need to find recent Show HN posts where people share their projects, products, or creations.
- Hackernews Get Top StoriesGet up to 500 top story IDs from HackerNews including jobs. Returns story IDs sorted by front page position. Use the returned IDs with get_item_with_id action to fetch full story details.
- Hackernews Get UpdatesGet recently changed items and user profiles from Hacker News. Use this to monitor recent activity or updates on the platform.
- Hackernews Get UserRetrieve a Hacker News user's public profile by their username. Returns the user's username, karma score, and optional bio/about text. Use this to look up information about HN community members.
- Hackernews Get User By UsernameTool to get a user profile by their case-sensitive username from the HackerNews Firebase API. Use when you need detailed user information including creation date, karma, bio, and submission history. Only users with public activity are available.
- Hackernews Search PostsSearch Hacker News posts using full-text search powered by Algolia. Use this action to find stories, comments, and discussions on Hacker News matching specific keywords. Supports filtering by post type (story, comment, show_hn, ask_hn) and by author.
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