# Hacker News integration

> Public read-only access to Hacker News stories, comments, users, and full-text search via the official Firebase and Algolia APIs.

- Authentication: noAuth

## Tools (12)

- **Get Ask HN Stories**: Get up to 200 latest "Ask HN" story ids.
- **Get Best Stories**: Get up to 500 best story ids ranked by score over a longer window than the front page.
- **Get Item**: Fetch a single Hacker News item (story, comment, job, poll, or pollopt) by its numeric id.
- **Get Job Stories**: Get up to 200 latest job posting ids from Hacker News.
- **Get Max Item ID**: Get the current largest item id on Hacker News — the watermark for walking backward to discover every item.
- **Get New Stories**: Get up to 500 newest story ids sorted most-recent first.
- **Get Show HN Stories**: Get up to 200 latest "Show HN" story ids — posts where users share projects or products they've built.
- **Get Top Stories**: Get up to 500 top story ids in front-page ranking order. Includes job posts that have been pinned to the front page.
- **Get Updates**: Get the ids and usernames of items and profiles modified in the last few minutes — a polling endpoint for change detection.
- **Get User**: Fetch a Hacker News user's public profile (karma, bio, creation date, and submission ids) by username.
- **Search Latest Posts (Algolia, by date)**: Chronological search over Hacker News stories and comments, newest first — same filters as the relevance search but ordered by date.
- **Search Posts (Algolia)**: Full-text search over Hacker News stories and comments ranked by relevance and popularity, powered by the Algolia HN Search API.

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Connect Hacker News in General Input: https://www.generalinput.com/apps/hacker-news