Hacker News

**Quick judgment:** A focused, high-utility skill for interacting with Hacker News that covers nearly all common HN workflows (browsing, searching, comments, users, and hiring threads). Well-suited as a “go-to” tool for anything HN-related. **What it’s good for** - Getting current HN trends: top/new/best, Ask HN, Show HN, and jobs lists. - Deep-diving on specific items: fetching full story details plus top comments, or drilling into user profiles. - Targeted research: using Algolia-backed search over stories and comments with filters for type, time period, and sort order. - Job and hiring discovery: quickly locating and parsing the latest "Who is hiring?" threads and associated comments. **Key strengths** - Very complete coverage of Hacker News endpoints and common user workflows. - No authentication required, so it is easy to integrate and robust against auth-related failures. - Parallel fetching for lists and automatic HTML-to-plain-text conversion improve practical usability and readability. **Risks and limitations** - **Unfiltered content:** Hacker News comments and posts can include offensive, misleading, or sensitive material; the skill appears to pass this through without additional moderation. - **External dependency:** Relies on the public Hacker News API and Algolia; outages, rate limits, or API changes could reduce reliability. - **Domain-limited:** Useful only for Hacker News content; not a general web search or news tool. **Recommended scenarios** - Assistants that monitor or summarize what’s trending on HN for developers, founders, or tech enthusiasts. - Research helpers that need to pull concrete examples, discussions, or sentiment from HN threads on a given topic. - Career or recruiting assistants that surface recent "Who is hiring?" posts and job discussions from HN. - Any agent where a user explicitly asks to "show", "search", or "summarize" something on Hacker News.