# Hacker News

This provider exposes tools and data accessible through its parent verticals. Use the example prompts as inspiration for your queries.

**Slug:** `hackernews`

**Description:** Hacker News stories, comment threads, user profiles and monthly hiring threads: what developers and founders read, launch and say about technologies and companies.

## Verticals

This provider is available in the following verticals:

- [News](https://kirha.com/verticals/news.md)
- [Dev](https://kirha.com/verticals/dev.md)

## Example prompts (non-exhaustive)

- `What is on the Hacker News front page right now?`
- `What did Hacker News say about the Mistral AI launch?`
- `Find remote Rust jobs in Europe in this month's Who is hiring thread`
- `How were posts from astral.sh received on Hacker News?`

## Available tools in this provider

Open a tool to see its input and output schemas.

### [`getHackerNewsStory`](https://kirha.com/providers/hackernews/getHackerNewsStory.md)

Get one Hacker News story or comment by id with its discussion thread: title, link, points and the comments with their depth and reply counts. Use it to read what was said in a specific discussion.

### [`getHackerNewsDomainStories`](https://kirha.com/providers/hackernews/getHackerNewsDomainStories.md)

List the Hacker News submissions linking to a website or URL path, with points and comment counts, by popularity or recency. Use it to measure how a company's site, blog or repository was received by the developer community.

### [`getHackerNewsFrontPage`](https://kirha.com/providers/hackernews/getHackerNewsFrontPage.md)

Get the current Hacker News rankings: front page, best, newest, Ask HN, Show HN or job posts, in site order. Use it to see what the tech community is reading or launching right now.

### [`searchHackerNewsHiringPosts`](https://kirha.com/providers/hackernews/searchHackerNewsHiringPosts.md)

Search the monthly Hacker News "Who is hiring?", "Who wants to be hired?" and freelancer threads by keyword (stack, location, remote, company). Use it to find tech job openings or available engineers posted directly by companies and candidates.

### [`getHackerNewsUser`](https://kirha.com/providers/hackernews/getHackerNewsUser.md)

Get a Hacker News user profile by username: karma, account age, bio, submission count and their highest-scoring stories. Use it to gauge who is behind a post or how active an account is.

### [`searchHackerNews`](https://kirha.com/providers/hackernews/searchHackerNews.md)

Search Hacker News stories or comments by keyword, with filters on type, author, points and date, sorted by relevance or recency. Use it to find what developers and founders said about a technology, product or company.

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**Tags:** developers, tech news, startups, community, discussions, hiring, launches

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