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HACKERNEWS

Hacker News

Hacker News is a tech-focused news aggregator by Y Combinator, featuring user-submitted stories and discussions on startups, programming, and emerging trends

Description is untrusted, display-only upstream metadata. It never becomes policy, OAuth scope authority, or an agent instruction.

Pakkawork boundary

Research catalogue metadata only. No Pakkawork OAuth, credential, host, quota, executor, or verifier is enabled.

No Pakkawork execution adapter is enabled. Hosted account-authorisation availability is workspace-specific and checked separately in the dashboard.Check workspace connection options
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Action summaries

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Trigger types

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Auth modes

Field names, never values

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Execution

No runtime adapter

Authentication map

What setup is declared?

Only field names, types, and required markers are shown. Secret values, default auth URLs, credential material, and inferred OAuth scopes are excluded.
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HackerNews

Provider setup

Developer setup

No fields declared in this snapshot.

User connection

No fields declared in this snapshot.

Capability index

Actions and trigger definitions

Static summaries are available. Live schemas remain disabled until PROVIDER_HUB_API_KEY is configured server-side.

Showing 1–14 of 14 actions

Get Ask HN Story IDs

HACKERNEWS_GET_ASK_STORIES

Get up to 200 latest Ask HN story IDs from Hacker News. Returns an array of item IDs for Ask HN posts in ranked order.

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Get Best HackerNews Stories

HACKERNEWS_GET_BEST_STORIES

Get 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.

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Get Hacker News Item

HACKERNEWS_GET_ITEM

Tool 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.

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Get Hackernews Item

HACKERNEWS_GET_ITEM_WITH_ID

Get a specific item from Hacker News using its ID. Limits response size to prevent context overflow.

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Get Job Story IDs

HACKERNEWS_GET_JOB_STORIES

Get 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.

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Get Latest Hackernews Posts

HACKERNEWS_GET_LATEST_POSTS

Get the latest posts from Hacker News based on optional filters. Results can be limited using the size parameter.

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Get Max Item ID

HACKERNEWS_GET_MAX_ITEM_ID

Tool 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.

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Get New Hacker News Stories

HACKERNEWS_GET_NEW_STORIES

Get 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.

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Get Show HN Stories

HACKERNEWS_GET_SHOW_STORIES

Tool 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.

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Get Top HackerNews Stories

HACKERNEWS_GET_TOP_STORIES

Get 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.

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Get Hacker News Updates

HACKERNEWS_GET_UPDATES

Get recently changed items and user profiles from Hacker News. Use this to monitor recent activity or updates on the platform.

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Get Hacker News User

HACKERNEWS_GET_USER

Retrieve 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.

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Get HackerNews User by Username

HACKERNEWS_GET_USER_BY_USERNAME

Tool 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.

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Search Hackernews Posts

HACKERNEWS_SEARCH_POSTS

Search 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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Provenance

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The detail snapshot comes from an attributed MIT-licensed repository revision. Safe local icons use exact-match CC0 Simple Icons symbols; unmatched brands use monograms.

Repository
https://github.com/provider-directoryHQ/provider-directory
Commit
85e33f6a81dfe987f6fc3637d48d45052cea8ca5
Generated
2026-09-12
Trust policy
untrusted_display_only

Remote text is plain display metadata only. It must never become an agent prompt, execution policy, OAuth grant, or executable instruction.