# 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

- **Category:** news & lifestyle
- **Auth:** NO_AUTH
- **Composio Managed App Available?** N/A
- **Tools:** 14
- **Triggers:** 0
- **Slug:** `HACKERNEWS`
- **Version:** 20260407_00

## Tools

### Get Ask HN Story IDs

**Slug:** `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.

### Get Best HackerNews Stories

**Slug:** `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.

### Get Hacker News Item

**Slug:** `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.

### Get Hackernews Item

**Slug:** `HACKERNEWS_GET_ITEM_WITH_ID`

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

### Get Job Story IDs

**Slug:** `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.

### Get Latest Hackernews Posts

**Slug:** `HACKERNEWS_GET_LATEST_POSTS`

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

### Get Max Item ID

**Slug:** `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.

### Get New Hacker News Stories

**Slug:** `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.

### Get Show HN Stories

**Slug:** `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.

### Get Top HackerNews Stories

**Slug:** `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.

### Get Hacker News Updates

**Slug:** `HACKERNEWS_GET_UPDATES`

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

### Get Hacker News User

**Slug:** `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.

### Get HackerNews User by Username

**Slug:** `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.

### Search Hackernews Posts

**Slug:** `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.