Skills pipeworx-hackernews

Name: pipeworx-hackernews
Author: openclaw

Search and browse Hacker News — top stories, keyword search via Algolia, and individual item lookup

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/openclaw/skills

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/openclaw/skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/brucegutman/pipeworx-hackernews" ~/.claude/skills/openclaw-skills-pipeworx-hackernews && rm -rf "$T"

OpenClaw · Install into ~/.openclaw/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/openclaw/skills "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.openclaw/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/brucegutman/pipeworx-hackernews" ~/.openclaw/skills/openclaw-skills-pipeworx-hackernews && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/brucegutman/pipeworx-hackernews/SKILL.md

Hacker News

Stay on top of tech news. Search HN stories via the Algolia-powered search API, pull the current top stories from the Firebase API, or fetch any individual story or comment by ID.

Tools

search_hn
— Full-text search across HN stories. Filter by date range and control result count.
get_top_stories
— Current top stories on Hacker News with title, URL, score, and comment count.
get_item
— Fetch a specific story or comment by its numeric HN ID.

Ideal for

"What's trending on Hacker News today?"
Searching for discussions about a specific technology or company
Pulling top stories for a daily digest or newsletter
Retrieving a specific story someone linked to by ID

Example: search for discussions about Rust

curl -s -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/hackernews/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_hn","arguments":{"query":"Rust programming language","sort":"points","limit":5}}}'

Connect

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-hackernews": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote@latest", "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/hackernews/mcp"]
    }
  }
}