/news.ycombinator.com

name: browsing-hackernews
description: "Use when the user wants to interact with Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com) — read top stories from the frontpage, extract a post's data and comments, or search stories via the Algolia HN search API. No authentication required. HN uses server-rendered HTML, so extraction works reliably without a browser (though a browser still works fine)."

Hacker News — Browsing Skill

Use this index to choose the HN action that matches the user request, then open the linked reference file for the complete navigation, requirements, code, and return shape.

Action Index

• **frontpage** — Extract top stories from the HN frontpage (rank, title, URL, score, author, comment count). Supports pagination. Full spec: [references/frontpage.md](references/frontpage.md).
• **post-data** — Extract a specific post's details (title, URL, score, author, age) and its top-level comments. Full spec: [references/post-data.md](references/post-data.md).
• **search** — Search Hacker News stories via the Algolia HN API. No browser navigation required — calls the API via fetch. Full spec: [references/search.md](references/search.md).

Benchmarks

Benchmarks compare the maintained skill action against a no-skill browser agent that inspects the live page DOM and derives selectors at runtime. Full notes live in [BENCHMARKS.md](../../BENCHMARKS.md).

| Action | With Skill | Without Skill | Notes | |---|---:|---:|---| | frontpage | TBD | TBD | TBD | | post-data | TBD | TBD | TBD | | search | TBD | TBD | TBD |