Hackernews
This hooks you into the official Hacker News API to pull stories, comments, and user profiles without dealing with scraping or authentication. You get all the standard feeds (top, new, best, Ask HN, Show HN, jobs) plus granular item lookups and user karma data. The API is straightforward Firebase endpoints returning JSON, no rate limits published but you'll want to be reasonable since every story detail needs its own request. The skill includes practical filters for high-scoring posts and topic-specific searches using jq. Honestly most useful when you need to analyze HN trends, monitor specific topics, or build dashboards without hitting the website. Just remember to cache aggressively since stories don't update that often.
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- Aug 21, 2026
Install
$ npx -y skills add vm0-ai/vm0-skills --skill hackernews --agent claude-codeInstalls into .claude/skills of the current project.
Files
How to Use
1. Get Top Stories
Fetch IDs of the current top 500 stories:
curl -s "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json" | jq '.[:10]'
2. Get Best Stories
Fetch the best stories (highest voted over time):
curl -s "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/beststories.json" | jq '.[:10]'
3. Get New Stories
Fetch the newest stories:
curl -s "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/newstories.json" | jq '.[:10]'
4. Get Ask HN Stories
Fetch "Ask HN" posts:
curl -s "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/askstories.json" | jq '.[:10]'
5. Get Show HN Stories
Fetch "Show HN" posts:
curl -s "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/showstories.json" | jq '.[:10]'
6. Get Job Stories
Fetch job postings:
curl -s "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/jobstories.json" | jq '.[:10]'
Item Details
7. Get Story/Comment/Job Details
Fetch full details for any item by ID. Replace <item-id> with the actual item ID:
curl -s "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/<item-id>.json"
Response fields:
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