Get Ask HN Story IDs
Get up to 200 latest Ask HN story IDs from Hacker News. Returns an array of item IDs for Ask HN posts in ranked order.
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Integrate Hacker News
with your AI CRM
Hacker News is a tech-focused news aggregator by Y Combinator, featuring user-submitted stories and discussions on startups, programming, and emerging trends
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Get Best HackerNews Stories
Get up to 500 best story IDs from HackerNews ranked by score. Returns story IDs only. Use the returned IDs with get_item_with_id action to fetch full story details.
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Get Hacker News Item
Tool to get a Hacker News item by its unique ID from the Firebase API. Use when you need to retrieve details about a specific story, comment, job, poll, or pollopt.
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Get Hacker News Updates
Get recently changed items and user profiles from Hacker News. Use this to monitor recent activity or updates on the platform.
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Get Hacker News User
Retrieve a Hacker News user's public profile by their username. Returns the user's username, karma score, and optional bio/about text. Use this to look up information about HN community members.
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Get Hackernews Item
Get a specific item from Hacker News using its ID. Limits response size to prevent context overflow.
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Get HackerNews User by Username
Tool to get a user profile by their case-sensitive username from the HackerNews Firebase API. Use when you need detailed user information including creation date, karma, bio, and submission history. Only users with public activity are available.
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Get Job Story IDs
Get up to 200 latest job story IDs from Hacker News. Returns an array of item IDs for job postings that can be used to fetch full job details.
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Get Latest Hackernews Posts
Get the latest posts from Hacker News based on optional filters. Results can be limited using the size parameter.
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Get Max Item ID
Tool to get the current largest item ID from Hacker News. Use when you need to discover the most recent items or iterate through all items in the system by walking backward from this ID.
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Get New Hacker News Stories
Get up to 500 newest story IDs from Hacker News. Returns an array of item IDs sorted by recency (most recent first). Use these IDs with the Get Item action to retrieve full story details.
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Get Show HN Stories
Tool to retrieve up to 200 latest Show HN story IDs from Hacker News. Use when you need to find recent Show HN posts where people share their projects, products, or creations.
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Get Top HackerNews Stories
Get up to 500 top story IDs from HackerNews including jobs. Returns story IDs sorted by front page position. Use the returned IDs with get_item_with_id action to fetch full story details.
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Search Hackernews Posts
Search Hacker News posts using full-text search powered by Algolia. Use this action to find stories, comments, and discussions on Hacker News matching specific keywords. Supports filtering by post type (story, comment, show_hn, ask_hn) and by author.
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How the Hacker News integration works
The Hacker News integration connects your Dench AI CRM directly to Hacker News, so agents can read and act on your Hacker News data as part of everyday work — answering questions in chat, keeping your CRM in sync, and running automations without anyone copying data between tools.
14 actions are available for agents to invoke on your behalf. Every call runs through Hacker News's own authorization, scoped to the account you connect.
Set up Hacker News in Dench
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Sign in to your Dench workspace and open Integrations.
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Find Hacker News and click Connect — you'll authorize access through Hacker News's own sign-in flow. No API keys or code required.
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Ask an agent to use Hacker News in chat, or call it from an automation.
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Manage or disconnect the connection any time from workspace settings.
Frequently asked questions
How does the Hacker News integration work with Dench?
The Dench Hacker News integration connects your AI CRM to Hacker News, so AI agents can work with your Hacker News data as part of chats, automations, and CRM workflows. You connect your account once, and every agent in your workspace can use it — governed by your workspace permissions.
What actions can AI agents perform with Hacker News via Dench?
The Hacker News integration currently exposes 14 actions, including Get Ask HN Story IDs, Get Best HackerNews Stories, Get Hacker News Item, Get Hacker News Updates, Get Hacker News User, and Get Hackernews Item. Agents invoke them on your behalf from chat or from automations.
Do I need to write code to connect Hacker News to Dench?
No. You connect Hacker News from your Dench workspace using Hacker News's own sign-in and authorization flow — no API keys to copy, no glue code to maintain.
Is the Hacker News integration secure?
Connections are authorized through Hacker News's own authentication flow, and Dench stores only the authorization needed to act on your behalf. You can review and disconnect the Hacker News connection from your workspace settings at any time.