Hacker News for Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT & agents

Hacker News — fetch front-page top, new, best, Ask HN, Show HN, and job stories, read individual items (story or comment) by id, look up user profiles, and full-text search the entire HN archive vi...

curl -fsSL https://syncorelabs.ai/install.sh | sh

What it does

Hacker News — fetch front-page top, new, best, Ask HN, Show HN, and job stories, read individual items (story or comment) by id, look up user profiles, and full-text search the entire HN archive via Algolia (filter by tags, date window, min points). Plus a convenience tool that returns a story plus its top first-level comments in one call. No auth needed. Use when the user mentions Hacker News, HN, YC, Show HN, Ask HN, or wants to find / read / monitor tech-startup discussions.

The Hacker News skill is one of 75+ pre-wired Syncore integrations that any MCP-compatible client — Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Codex CLI, and ChatGPT desktop — can call out of the box. You don't configure MCP servers or copy API keys into a JSON file; the Syncore daemon discovers the skill at startup and exposes its tools to whichever AI client is running.

Sample prompts

Once Syncore is installed and Hacker News is connected, ask your agent something like:

• “Get top stories from Hacker News.”
• “Get new stories from Hacker News.”
• “Get best stories from Hacker News.”

Tools available (10)

• hackernews__get_top_stories

  Front-page top stories. Returns the first N items with title + url + points + comment count.

• hackernews__get_new_stories

  Newest submissions feed.

• hackernews__get_best_stories

  'Best' (top by score in a longer window) feed.

• hackernews__get_ask_stories

  Ask HN stories.

• hackernews__get_show_stories

  Show HN stories.

• hackernews__get_job_stories

  Job postings (less interesting for most agents but harmless).

• hackernews__get_item

  Fetch any HN item (story or comment) by id. Returns full text + kids (child comment ids).

• hackernews__get_user

  Fetch a user profile (created date, karma, about text).

• hackernews__search_stories

  Search HN via the Algolia API by free-text query. Returns scored matches across all stories.

• hackernews__get_story_with_top_comments

  Convenience: fetch a story plus its top N first-level comments in one call. Saves the agent multiple hops.

How to connect

Hacker News is a no-auth skill — there's nothing to connect. Once Syncore is installed, your agent can call its tools immediately.

1. Run curl -fsSL https://syncorelabs.ai/install.sh | sh on macOS / Linux (or the PowerShell command on Windows).
2. Run syncore login to create your account and a device-bound encryption key.
3. Run syncore update to sync the skill + credentials to every installed AI client.

Pricing

Free at every Syncore tier. Connect your account once at /connect; the OAuth or API-key credential stays encrypted on your machine and syncs to your other devices via the Syncore vault.

See the full Syncore pricing breakdown — Free $0/mo, Pro $29/mo, Ultra $99/mo — on the homepage.