Hacker News
for LuumenAI
Read Hacker News stories, comments, and profiles from the terminal
Pull Hacker News into your working context without leaving the terminal. Ask for the current top or new story IDs with HACKERNEWS_GET_TOP_STORIES, then read a thread and its comments through HACKERNEWS_GET_ITEM. Show HN, Ask HN, jobs, user profiles, and recent changes are all available. No credential to set up, and every tool here is read-only.
The Hacker News toolbox
14 tools, all read-only. They answer instantly, and every call is logged.
- ReadGet Ask HN Story IDsGet up to 200 latest Ask HN story IDs from Hacker News.
- ReadGet Best HackerNews StoriesGet up to 500 best story IDs from HackerNews ranked by score.
- ReadGet Hacker News ItemGet a Hacker News item by its unique ID from the Firebase API.
- ReadGet Hackernews ItemGet a specific item from Hacker News using its ID.
- ReadGet Job Story IDsGet up to 200 latest job story IDs from Hacker News.
- ReadGet Latest Hackernews PostsGet the latest posts from Hacker News based on optional filters.
- ReadGet Max Item IDGet the current largest item ID from Hacker News.
- ReadGet New Hacker News StoriesGet up to 500 newest story IDs from Hacker News.
- ReadGet Show HN StoriesRetrieve up to 200 latest Show HN story IDs from Hacker News.
- ReadGet Top HackerNews StoriesGet up to 500 top story IDs from HackerNews including jobs.
- ReadGet Hacker News UpdatesGet recently changed items and user profiles from Hacker News.
- ReadGet Hacker News UserRetrieve a Hacker News user's public profile by their username.
- ReadGet HackerNews User by UsernameGet a user profile by their case-sensitive username from the HackerNews Firebase API.
- ReadSearch Hackernews PostsSearch Hacker News posts using full-text search powered by Algolia.
Questions
Hacker News needs no credential of its own, so there is nothing to authorize. Access is still granted per agent, skill, and team inside Luumen, and every call is logged.
No. Every one of the 14 tools LuumenAI has for Hacker News is read-only, so it can answer questions from Hacker News but cannot change anything in it. Reads are not gated — they answer immediately, and each one is recorded on the audit trail with the actor and the result.
You decide. Access is granted per agent, skill, and team, and per environment — production is not staging.
Every call to Hacker News is recorded with the actor, the input, and the result, and can be linked to the ticket or change record.
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