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Hacker News Top

Fetch the top N Hacker News stories with titles, URLs, scores, and comment counts.

Hacker News Top

Fetch the top N stories from Hacker News with titles, URLs, scores, and comment counts. Uses the official HN Firebase API. Free, no auth.

Tool ID

hacker-news-top

Credential Required

No.

Input Properties

Property Type Default Description
count string "10" Number of stories to fetch. Clamped to 1-50.

Published Outputs

Output Description
summary Multi-line text summary, ready to email or Slack
stories JSON array of {rank, id, title, url, score, by, comments, hnLink}
count Number of stories returned
timestamp ISO 8601 timestamp

Example

Input:

tool: hacker-news-top
properties:
  count: "5"

Actual captured output:

Hacker News top 5 — 2026-04-21 13:57
  1. The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables (30 pts, 9 comments, 0.7h ago)
     https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/26/d/vercel-breach-oauth-supply-chain.html
  2. Laws of Software Engineering (595 pts, 304 comments, 6.9h ago)
     https://lawsofsoftwareengineering.com
  3. A Periodic Map of Cheese (24 pts, 1 comments, 1.4h ago)
     https://cheesemap.netlify.app/
  4. Show HN: GoModel – an open-source AI gateway in Go (94 pts, 29 comments, 3.8h ago)
     https://github.com/ENTERPILOT/GOModel/
  5. Fusion Power Plant Simulator (80 pts, 27 comments, 3.5h ago)
     https://www.fusionenergybase.com/fusion-power-plant-simulator

How it works

The HN API requires two steps: fetch the ID list, then fetch each story's details. This tool parallelizes the per-story fetches (up to 10 concurrent) so 10 stories completes in ~1-2 seconds total.

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