Hacker News, worked by an AI employee
Not another app for your team to learn, and not a set of rules for you to build. You hire an AI employee, you give it access to your Hacker News account, and you ask it for things in Slack or Teams the way you would ask anyone else on the team. There is nothing to map and nothing to maintain.
- News & Lifestyle
- No sign in of its own
- 6 ready-made tools
- Asked in Slack or Teams
An illustration of how the conversation reads, not a transcript from a client account.
What Hacker News is
Hacker News is a tech-focused news aggregator by Y Combinator, featuring user-submitted stories and discussions on startups, programming, and emerging trends
It reaches Hacker News without a sign in of its own.
One message in, the work done in Hacker News.
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You ask
You message your AI employee in the chat your team already has open, in one sentence, in your own words.
- 02
It works out the step
It decides what the job needs in Hacker News. You do not pick anything from a menu or wire anything together.
- 03
It does the work
Signed in to your own Hacker News account, inside the access you granted it, doing the thing you asked for.
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It reports back
It tells you what it did, in the same thread. If it could not do something, it says so rather than guessing.
What it can do in Hacker News
These are the ready-made tools your AI employee already has in Hacker News. It is not limited to them, but it never has to be taught these.
- Get Hackernews FrontpageGet the frontpage posts of hacker news.
- Get Hackernews ItemGet a specific item from hacker news using its id. limits response size to prevent context overflow.
- Get Hackernews Today PostsGet today's posts from hacker news.
- Get Hackernews UserGet a specific user from hacker news using their username.
- Get Latest Hackernews PostsGet the latest posts from hacker news based on optional filters. results can be limited using the size parameter.
- Search Hackernews PostsGet relevant posts from hacker news based on a full-text query and optional filters. results can be limited using the size parameter.
You stay the boss of your Hacker News account.
Nothing connects until you approve it. You grant access one app at a time, you can take it back the same way, and everything your AI employee does in there is written down where you can see it.
How we handle your data- It signs in to your own Hacker News account. You are not moving anything into ours.
- You grant access one app at a time, and you can take it back the same way.
- Everything it does in Hacker News is written down, with what it did and when.
- Anything you tell it to check with you first, it checks with you first.
It works in Hacker News and the rest of your software in the same job
A real job rarely stays in one place. Reading a message in one app, checking a record in another and writing the result in a third is one request to your AI employee, not three.
Questions people ask about Hacker News
- Can an AI employee really work inside Hacker News?
- Yes. It signs in to your own Hacker News account and works in it the way a new hire would, from the chat your team already has open. Nobody installs anything, and nobody learns a new screen.
- Do I have to move anything out of Hacker News?
- No. Nothing moves and nothing is replaced. Your records stay in Hacker News, your team carries on in the same screens they used yesterday, and your AI employee works alongside them in there.
- How does it get into my Hacker News account?
- It reaches Hacker News without a sign in of its own. You approve it before anything connects, and you can take the access back the same way you gave it.
- What can it actually do in Hacker News?
- It has 6 ready-made tools in Hacker News today, among them Get Hackernews Frontpage, Get Hackernews Item and Get Hackernews Today Posts. The full list is on this page. It is not limited to those, but it never has to be taught them.
- Can it use Hacker News and the rest of my software in the same job?
- Yes, and that is usually the point. Reading a message in one app, checking a record in Hacker News and writing the result somewhere else is one request to your AI employee, not three separate ones you stitch together.
- Who decides what it is allowed to do in Hacker News?
- You do. You grant access one app at a time and can withdraw it at any time, anything you ask it to check with you first it checks with you first, and everything it does in Hacker News is written down with what it did and when.