---
title: "Hacker News integration for LuumenAI"
url: "https://www.luumen.ai/integrations/hacker-news/"
entity: SoftwareIntegration
category: "Databases & data platforms"
audience: "SRE, DevOps, platform engineering, IT operations"
---

# Hacker News integration for LuumenAI

Read Hacker News stories, comments, and profiles from the terminal

## What LuumenAI can do with Hacker News

LuumenAI connects to Hacker News without a credential of its own and exposes 14 tools (14 read-only). Every tool is read-only, so it can answer questions from Hacker News but cannot change anything in it.

## Key facts

- Authentication: none required
- Tools available: 14 tools (14 read-only)
- Plan: available on all plans
- Category: Databases & data platforms

## About Hacker News with LuumenAI

Pull Hacker News into your working context without leaving the terminal. Ask for the current top or new story IDs with HACKERNEWS_GET_TOP_STORIES, then read a thread and its comments through HACKERNEWS_GET_ITEM. Show HN, Ask HN, jobs, user profiles, and recent changes are all available. No credential to set up, and every tool here is read-only.

## Example tools

Read-only (14 in total):

- `HACKERNEWS_GET_ASK_STORIES` — Get up to 200 latest Ask HN story IDs from Hacker News.
- `HACKERNEWS_GET_BEST_STORIES` — Get up to 500 best story IDs from HackerNews ranked by score.
- `HACKERNEWS_GET_ITEM` — Get a Hacker News item by its unique ID from the Firebase API.
- `HACKERNEWS_GET_ITEM_WITH_ID` — Get a specific item from Hacker News using its ID.
- `HACKERNEWS_GET_JOB_STORIES` — Get up to 200 latest job story IDs from Hacker News.
- `HACKERNEWS_GET_LATEST_POSTS` — Get the latest posts from Hacker News based on optional filters.
- `HACKERNEWS_GET_MAX_ITEM_ID` — Get the current largest item ID from Hacker News.
- `HACKERNEWS_GET_NEW_STORIES` — Get up to 500 newest story IDs from Hacker News.

## Frequently asked questions

### How does LuumenAI connect to Hacker News?

Hacker News needs no credential of its own, so there is nothing to authorize. Access is still granted per agent, skill, and team inside Luumen, and every call is logged.

### Can LuumenAI change things in Hacker News on its own?

No. Every one of the 14 tools is read-only, so LuumenAI can answer questions from Hacker News but cannot change anything in it.

### Is there an audit trail?

Every call to Hacker News is recorded with the actor, the input, and the result.

Full page: https://www.luumen.ai/integrations/hacker-news/