Use Case
Hacker News is a powerful AI agent skill that extends your assistant with new capabilities. Browse and search Hacker News. Fetch top, new, best, Ask HN, Show HN stories and job postings. View item details, comments, and user profiles. Search stories and comments via Algolia. Find "Who is hiring?" threads. Use for any HN-related queries like "what's trending on HN?", "search HN for AI", "show comments on story X", "who is hiring?", "latest Ask HN posts". This guide walks you through installing Hacker News, configuring it for your setup, and running your first commands β so you can start getting value in minutes.
Install Hacker News: npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install hackernews
Restart your AI client (Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, or OpenClaw)
Type a natural language request related to marketing & growth to trigger Hacker News
Review the output and refine your prompt for better results
Combine Hacker News with other skills to build multi-step workflows
Copy these prompts and use them with your AI agent after installing Hacker News
Help me get started with Hacker News
What can Hacker News do for my marketing & growth workflow?
Show me an example of using Hacker News
Select your agent
Option 1: Install via CLI (recommended)
Recommended (no pre-install needed)
npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install hackernewsOr via clawhub CLI (if already installed)
clawhub --dir ~/.claude/skills install hackernewsβ οΈ Requires Node.js 18+. No Node? Use Option 2 below to download the ZIP instead. Install Node.js β
Option 2: Manual install (no Node required)
Download the ZIP, extract it, and place the folder at the path below. Restart your agent to activate.
Install path
~/.claude/skills/hackernews/π‘Extract and place the folder at the path above, then restart your agent.