Best agent skills for Hacker News
We found 44 agent skills for Hacker News in the catalog; these are the 15 that rank highest. The order comes from our rank, which weighs adoption, freshness, documentation and publisher identity. Nobody can pay for a place on this list. hn-summarize, hackernews-frontpage and social-data lead it. hackernews-frontpage comes from the largest repository here (137,493 stars). 8 of the 15 had activity in the last 30 days. Each entry lists why it made the list and links to its install page.
Updated Oct 26, 2026 · Built from catalog data; how we rank and grade
Top 15 of 44
- 1hn-summarize
ykdojo
Fetch and summarize Hacker News / hckrnews.com top stories, articles, and their comment threads.
- Repository has 10.3K stars
★ 10.3KLast active Aug 30, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 2hackernews-frontpage
garrytan
Scrape the Hacker News front page (titles, points, comment counts).
- Largest repository here (137,493 stars)
- Open source (MIT)
- Ships helper scripts
★ 137.5KLast active Aug 17, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 3social-data
Bitterbot-AI
Search and fetch social media data from Twitter/X, Reddit, and Hacker News.
- Repository has 2.5K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 2.5KLast active Oct 22, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 4news-aggregator-skill
cclank
Comprehensive news aggregator that fetches, filters, and deeply analyzes real-time content from 44+ sources including Hacker News, Lobsters, Dev.to, GitHub…
- Repository has 1.3K stars
- Ships helper scripts
- For Python
★ 1.3KLast active May 27, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
CFreshness: C–Security: not graded yet - 5last30
aeonfun
Cross-platform social research - narrative-first intelligence on what people are saying about a topic across Reddit, X, HN, Polymarket, and the web over the…
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 782Last active Oct 1, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 6hackernews-search
setwhite
搜索 Hacker News 帖子与热门。
- Active in the last 30 days
- Ships helper scripts
- For Python
★ 38Last active Oct 24, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 7frontier-digest
chrono-meta
Collects the latest AI/harness engineering trends from HackerNews, arxiv, launch channels (Launch YC, Product Hunt, Show HN), GeekNews and vendor changelogs…
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 30Last active Oct 24, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 8hacker-news
felixzhang-glitch
查询 Hacker News 数据:top/new/best/ask/show/job 榜单及详情、帖子评论树、全文搜索、用户信息、文章正文提取。当用户提到 HN、Hacker News、科技圈热点、HN 热帖、某条 HN 新闻的内容或评论时使用。数据源为官方 Firebase API + Algolia 搜索…
- Active in the last 30 days
- Ships helper scripts
- For JavaScript
★ 19Last active Oct 22, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 9hacker-news
GregHilston
Search Hacker News and read threads with their comments, no key needed.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 15Last active Oct 21, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 10web-research
ZDStudios
Read YouTube videos (full transcripts, chapters, metadata), Reddit threads and subreddits, Hacker News discussions, and any web page as clean text — through…
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 6Last active Oct 6, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 11hackernews_distribution
kami-community
Relevant HN discussions, Ask HN, or Show HN launch preparation — conservative, manual-only.
★ 65Last active Aug 12, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 12topic-collector
laborany
AI热点采集工具。从Twitter/X、Product Hunt、Reddit、Hacker News、博客等采集AI相关热点内容。当用户说"开始今日选题"、"采集热点"、"看看今天有什么新闻"、"今日AI热点"时触发。聚焦领域：Vibe Coding、Claude…
- Open source (MIT)
- Ships helper scripts
- For Python
★ 86Last active May 16, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
CFreshness: C–Security: not graded yet - 13hackernews-frontpage
sandbaseai
Research and evaluate hacker news front page with current authoritative sources, provenance, and explicit evidence gaps.
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
★ 201Last active Sep 8, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 14job-search
cheshirecode
Source remote job postings from public boards (Greenhouse boards, HN Who-is-hiring, RemoteOK, LinkedIn via the browser harness, direct URLs), filter them for…
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (Unlicense)
- Ships helper scripts
Last active Sep 25, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 15news
p-sree-sai-pavan
Fetches latest technology news headlines from HackerNews
★ 5Last active Aug 10, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet