Hacker News Skill

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Domain knowledge for your AI assistant — workflow patterns, data model concepts, and gotchas for Hacker News tools.

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Hacker News
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Hacker News — stories, comments, users, search

Top stories, list stories for feeds. Fetch item for story+comments. Fetch user for profile. Search stories, search comments for keyword. Updates for real-time.

Data Model

  • Stories — top, best, new, Show HN, Ask HN, jobs. Ranked feeds.
  • Items — story or comment. Fetch with optional comment tree.
  • Users — profile, submission history.
  • Search — by keyword, date, points, author.

Gotchas

  • Firebase: Live state from Firebase; list tools reflect current rank.
  • Item IDs: Numeric. Stories and comments are items.

Use with Hacker News Bundle

This skill teaches your AI assistant domain knowledge. To actually execute Hacker News API calls, enable the MCP bundle — the skill and bundle work together.

Ready to use Hacker News?

Install the skill for domain knowledge, enable the bundle for authenticated tool access

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