Pp Hackernews

This is Hacker News done right for automation. It installs a Go CLI that syncs stories and comments into local SQLite, then gives you commands no other HN tool has: `since` shows exactly what moved on the front page between syncs, `velocity` tracks a story's rank trajectory over time, `controversial` finds high-debate threads by comment-to-point ratio, and `pulse` graphs topic mentions across days. The hiring commands mine multiple Who-is-Hiring threads for language trends and repeat posters. You also get offline full-text search over your growing local corpus and per-user traction stats. If you're building agents that need to track HN signal over time instead of just fetching today's top 30, the snapshot history makes queries that would otherwise require constant API hammering trivial.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add mvanhorn/printing-press-library --skill pp-hackernews --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

Hacker News — Printing Press CLI

Prerequisites: Install the CLI

This skill drives the hackernews-pp-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first:

Install via the Printing Press installer. It defaults binaries to $HOME/.local/bin on macOS/Linux and %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\PrintingPress\bin on Windows:
```
npx -y @mvanhorn/printing-press-library install hackernews --cli-only
```
Verify: hackernews-pp-cli --version
Ensure the reported install directory is on $PATH for the agent/runtime that will invoke this skill.

If the npx install fails (no Node, offline, etc.), fall back to a direct Go install (requires Go 1.26.6 or newer):

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