Requirements
- Target platform
- OpenClaw
- Install method
- Manual import
- Extraction
- Extract archive
- Prerequisites
- OpenClaw
- Primary doc
- SKILL.md
Browse and search Hacker News. Fetch top, new, best, Ask HN, Show HN stories and job postings. View item details, comments, and user profiles. Search stories and comments via Algolia. Find "Who is hiring?" threads. Use for any HN-related queries like "what's trending on HN?", "search HN for AI", "show comments on story X", "who is hiring?", "latest Ask HN posts".
Browse and search Hacker News. Fetch top, new, best, Ask HN, Show HN stories and job postings. View item details, comments, and user profiles. Search stories and comments via Algolia. Find "Who is hiring?" threads. Use for any HN-related queries like "what's trending on HN?", "search HN for AI", "show comments on story X", "who is hiring?", "latest Ask HN posts".
Hand the extracted package to your coding agent with a concrete install brief instead of figuring it out manually.
I downloaded a skill package from Yavira. Read SKILL.md from the extracted folder and install it by following the included instructions. Tell me what you changed and call out any manual steps you could not complete.
I downloaded an updated skill package from Yavira. Read SKILL.md from the extracted folder, compare it with my current installation, and upgrade it while preserving any custom configuration unless the package docs explicitly say otherwise. Summarize what changed and any follow-up checks I should run.
CLI tool for the Hacker News API. No authentication required.
Run scripts/hn.sh <command>. All commands support --json for raw JSON output.
# Top/trending stories (default 10) scripts/hn.sh top scripts/hn.sh top --limit 20 # Other lists scripts/hn.sh new --limit 5 # newest scripts/hn.sh best --limit 10 # highest rated scripts/hn.sh ask # Ask HN scripts/hn.sh show # Show HN scripts/hn.sh jobs # job postings
# Full item details (story, comment, job, poll) scripts/hn.sh item 12345678 # Top comments on a story scripts/hn.sh comments 12345678 scripts/hn.sh comments 12345678 --limit 10 --depth 2
scripts/hn.sh user dang
# Basic search scripts/hn.sh search "rust programming" # With filters scripts/hn.sh search "LLM" --type story --sort date --period week --limit 5 scripts/hn.sh search "hiring remote" --type comment --period month
# Latest "Who is hiring?" job postings scripts/hn.sh whoishiring scripts/hn.sh whoishiring --limit 20
User asksCommand"What's trending on HN?"scripts/hn.sh top"Latest Ask HN posts"scripts/hn.sh ask"Search HN for X"scripts/hn.sh search "X""Show me comments on story Y"scripts/hn.sh comments Y"Who is hiring?"scripts/hn.sh whoishiring"Tell me about HN user Z"scripts/hn.sh user Z
Story lists use parallel fetching for speed HTML in comments/bios is auto-converted to plain text Timestamps shown as relative time ("2h ago", "3d ago") For API details, see references/api.md
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