Add Hacker News to your AI agent
Hacker News is a tech-focused news aggregator by Y Combinator, featuring user-submitted stories and discussions on startups, programming, and emerging trends
- Things your agent can do in Hacker News
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Things your AI can do in Hacker News
Your FormWise AI can handle any of these in Hacker News — on its own, without you needing to click a button.
Get Best HackerNews Stories
PopularGet 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.
Get Hacker News Item
PopularTool 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.
Get New Hacker News Stories
PopularGet 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.
Get Top HackerNews Stories
PopularGet 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.
Get HackerNews User by Username
PopularTool 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.
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.
Get Hackernews Item
Get a specific item from Hacker News using its ID. Limits response size to prevent context overflow.
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.
Get Latest Hackernews Posts
Get the latest posts from Hacker News based on optional filters. Results can be limited using the size parameter.
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.
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.
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.
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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Connect in a few clicks and start using your AI right away. If you can use the apps you already love, you can do this.
Sounds like you, not like a bot
Train your AI on your offer, your voice, and the way you actually talk to clients — it picks up where you leave off.
Plugs into the stack you already use
No need to rip out your CRM, your scheduler, or your email tool. Your AI works inside the apps running your business today.
Your data stays yours
Client conversations, lists, and credentials are scoped to your workspace. Nothing gets shared, sold, or used to train anyone else’s AI.
What you can do once Hacker News is connected
Onboard new clients without lifting a finger
When someone signs up, your AI greets them, sets up their next step in Hacker News, and keeps the momentum going — even at 2am.
Reply to leads in seconds, not days
Your AI watches Hacker News for new inquiries, answers questions in your voice, and books the call before they cool off.
Get your weekends back
Hand off the repetitive Hacker News work — follow-ups, reminders, updates, simple admin — and stop being the bottleneck in your own business.
How to connect Hacker News to your agent
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Start using FormWise for free
Sign up in under a minute.
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Find Hacker News in your connected apps
Inside FormWise, go to Settings → Connected Services and look for Hacker News.
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Hit "Connect"
Click "Add Hacker News". You're done — no login or setup required.
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Tell your AI what to do in Hacker News
Build a quick AI Agent (it's like writing instructions, not code), and pick the Hacker News actions you want your AI to handle.
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Watch it run
Send it a real-world task and watch your AI take care of Hacker News for you. Tweak the wording until it feels just right.
Powered by the AI you already trust
Your Hacker News workflow runs on the same world-class AI used by ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. We handle the technical part — you just tell your AI what to do, in plain English.
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Questions other Hacker News users had before signing up
Do I need to know how to code?
Not even a little. If you can use Hacker News today, you can set this up. You'll connect Hacker News, tell your AI what it should help with, and you're live. The whole thing is built for coaches, course creators, agencies, and operators — not engineers.
Will my clients know they're talking to an AI?
Only if you want them to. Your FormWise AI is trained on your voice, your offer, and the way you actually communicate — so it sounds like a thoughtful team member, not a clunky chatbot. Most people can't tell.
Can I make it sound like me?
Yes. You can give your AI examples of how you write, the questions you usually ask new clients, the way you handle objections, and the language you use about your offer. The more you give it, the more it sounds like you wrote it.
What if I want to take over a conversation?
You're always in control. You can step in at any point, take over from your AI, or stop it from sending messages until you've reviewed them. Think of it as a teammate, not a replacement.
Is my client data safe?
Yes. Your Hacker News login and client information stay scoped to your workspace. We don't sell it, we don't share it, and we don't use your data to train anyone else's AI. You can disconnect Hacker News or delete everything any time.
What happens when Hacker News updates their app?
We handle it. When Hacker News adds new features or changes how something works, we update the integration in the background. You don't have to do anything — your AI just keeps working.
How fast can I actually get this running?
Most people are up and running the same day they sign up. Connecting Hacker News takes a few minutes. Teaching your AI to handle the work the way you'd want it done is the part worth slowing down for.
What is FormWise?
FormWise is the AI agent builder for coaches, course creators, and agencies. You connect the apps you already use — like Hacker News — train your AI on your offer and voice, and let it handle the work you've been doing manually: onboarding, follow-ups, support, admin. No code, no developers, no engineering team required.
Can I sell AI agents to my clients?
Yes. A lot of FormWise users build AI assistants and sell them as part of their offer — done-for-you AI setups, white-label assistants for client businesses, custom GPTs trained on a client's brand. You can charge a setup fee, a monthly retainer, or both.
Can I embed my AI on my website or in my course?
Yes. Every AI you build in FormWise can be embedded on your site, dropped into your course platform, or shared as a standalone link. Your clients and students just open it like any other web page — no app to download, no login hoops.
Do I need to know anything about AI to use this?
No. If you can describe what you want your AI to do in plain English — "greet new clients, ask these 3 questions, book them a call" — FormWise can build it. We handle the models, the prompts, the connections. You handle the part you already know: what your business actually needs.
About Hacker News on FormWise
Hacker News is a tech-focused news aggregator by Y Combinator, featuring user-submitted stories and discussions on startups, programming, and emerging trends
Connect Hacker News once and your FormWise AI gets 14 things it can do inside it. That means your AI can handle the Hacker News work in your business — the messages, the updates, the follow-ups, the admin — the way you would, just faster and around the clock.
You don't need to know how any of it works under the hood. We take care of keeping the connection alive, retrying if something fails, and making sure your data only ever moves where you tell it to.
New to Hacker News? Take a look at news.ycombinator.com.
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