hn

Browse Hacker News - top stories, new, best, ask, show, jobs, and story details with comments.

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Install / Use

npx skills add abk234/searxng-skill --skill hn

Installs into whichever agent you are using.

About this skill

📄

SKILL.md

Installable skill definition

Quality Score

55/100

Our assessment of hn

hn scores 55/100 on our quality scale, 4207th of 4,640 Development & Engineering skills we index.

Its SKILL.md is 1.2 KB long, split into 7 sections with 4 code examples: moderately detailed.

It has no GitHub stars yet, so there is no community track record; judge it on its content.

Substance

20/30

Structure

18/20

Description

12/15

Adoption

0/20

Freshness

5/15

Maintenance, license and trust

We could not determine when the repository was last updated.
No license is declared. By default that means all rights are reserved: you can read it, but reusing or redistributing it is not clearly permitted. Ask the author before building on it commercially.
Its trust signals score 68/100, with 3 cautions from licensing, adoption, age or documentation. These come from repository metadata, not a code audit — read the skill file before letting an agent act on it.

Safety scan

No issues found

Our scan of the whole file found no instruction hijacking, hidden characters, credential access, data exfiltration or destructive commands.

Automated pattern scan on 2026-10-28. It catches known dangerous patterns, not every risk — read a skill before letting an agent act on it.

hn compared with similar skills

All 4 of these similar skills score higher than hn; compare them before choosing.

Skill	Score	Stars	Updated	Format
hn (this skill)by abk234	55	0	—	SKILL.md
taste-skillby Leonxlnx	100	104.0k	today	CLAUDE.md
ai-job-searchby ai-job-search-dev	100	67.0k	1d ago	CLAUDE.md
claude-howtoby luongnv89	100	45.7k	1d ago	CLAUDE.md
algorithmic-artby anthropics	100	177.9k	35d ago	SKILL.md

Frequently asked questions

How do I install hn?: Run npx skills add abk234/searxng-skill --skill hn. The install tabs above show the steps for each supported agent.
Which AI agents does hn work with?: It is written for Universal, as a SKILL.md file. Other agents that read the same format can often use it too.
Is hn safe to use?: Our scan of the whole file found no instruction hijacking, hidden characters, credential access, data exfiltration or destructive commands. It declares no license and scores 68/100 on trust signals. Skills are instructions an agent will follow, so read the file before installing it and do not approve commands you do not understand.
Is hn still maintained?: We could not determine when the repository was last updated.

Skill content

View source on GitHub

name: hn description: Browse Hacker News - top stories, new, best, ask, show, jobs, and story details with comments. homepage: https://news.ycombinator.com metadata: {"clawdis":{"emoji":"📰","requires":{"bins":["curl"]}}}

Hacker News

Read Hacker News from the command line.

Commands

Other Feeds

uv run {baseDir}/scripts/hn.py new          # Newest stories
uv run {baseDir}/scripts/hn.py best         # Best stories
uv run {baseDir}/scripts/hn.py ask          # Ask HN
uv run {baseDir}/scripts/hn.py show         # Show HN
uv run {baseDir}/scripts/hn.py jobs         # Jobs

Story Details

uv run {baseDir}/scripts/hn.py story <id>              # Story with top comments
uv run {baseDir}/scripts/hn.py story <id> --comments 20 # More comments

Search

uv run {baseDir}/scripts/hn.py search "AI agents"      # Search stories
uv run {baseDir}/scripts/hn.py search "Claude" -n 5    # Limit results

API

Uses the official Hacker News API (no auth required).

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abk234

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GitHub Stars0

CategoryDevelopment

UpdatedNaNy ago

Forks0

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Trust signals

68/100

From repository metadata: license, adoption, age and documentation. Not a code audit — see the Safety scan above for what the skill file itself contains.

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