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Hacker News is a social news aggregator focused on computer science and entrepreneurship, run by Y Combinator, that lets agents read top stories, fetch individual items, and look up user profiles and submissions.

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Setup

  1. In Agent Studio, go to Tools → Hacker News → Connect
  2. No authentication required, the tool is ready to use immediately.

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Available actions

ActionDescription
HACKERNEWS__TOP_STORIES_GETFetch the current list of top stories from Hacker News.
HACKERNEWS__ITEM_GETFetch a specific story or comment by its item ID.
HACKERNEWS__USER_GETFetch profile information for a Hacker News user by their user ID.
HACKERNEWS__USER_STORIES_GETFetch all stories submitted by a specific Hacker News user.
HACKERNEWS__USER_RECEIVED_GETFetch stories and comments received by a specific Hacker News user.

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Adding to an agent

  1. Open your agent in Agent Studio → Agent Builder
  2. Go to Tools and enable Hacker News
  3. Select only the actions your agent needs
  4. Set auth mode: No auth needed

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Example use cases

Daily tech news briefing An agent fetches the current top stories from Hacker News each morning and summarizes the most relevant headlines for a developer team’s daily standup digest. Story and discussion deep-dive Given a story ID shared in a Slack message, an agent retrieves the full item details and threads through comments to produce a concise summary of the community discussion. User activity research An agent looks up a Hacker News user’s profile and submitted stories to quickly surface their posting history, karma, and areas of technical interest for outreach or research purposes.