Use Case
Hacker News isn't just for solo use β teams can share skills and build consistent AI workflows across the organization. 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 covers how to deploy Hacker News for your team, standardize prompts, and create shared workflows that everyone can use.
Install Hacker News in your project directory: .claude/skills/hackernews/
Commit the skill folder to your repository so the whole team has access
Document your team's standard prompts in a shared README
Use Hacker News in code reviews, standups, and planning sessions
Iterate: collect feedback from the team and refine your prompts
Copy these prompts and use them with your AI agent after installing Hacker News
How can my team use Hacker News together?
Set up Hacker News for our project so everyone can use it
Create a shared workflow using Hacker News for our team
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.