Hacker News
Hacker News search
Search Hacker News stories and comments (Algolia index). Great for tech watch and sentiment on tools and startups.
Free Hacker NewsNewshackernews/searchActive
Use this tool with your agent
Give this to your agent
Use my connected Agentik MCP server. I want to use the tool hackernews/search (Hacker News search). Call inspect_tool with {"tool_id": "hackernews/search"} first and tell me the price before anything runs. Ask me for the inputs it needs; never invent values, IDs or file URLs. When I confirm, call run_tool with tool_id "hackernews/search" and my inputs, follow it with get_run if it is still running, and give me the result and the price Agentik reports. If the tool is unavailable, say so and use discover_tools to propose an alternative.Show the prompt
Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT or Codex: your agent takes it from there, and shows the price before it runs.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
query | string | Yes | |
tags | string | No | e.g. 'story', 'comment', 'front_page' |
hits | integer | No |
How your agent calls it
First inspect_tool for the current schema and price, then run_tool with the published example after confirming your inputs:
{
"tool_id": "hackernews/search",
"input": {
"query": "openrouter",
"hits": 3
}
}Price and billing
- Price
- Free
- Model
- Per call
- Detail
- No charge per call. A workspace is still needed so your agent can call it.
- License
- HN Search API (Algolia), free
- Attribution
- Search by Algolia, data from Hacker News
- The provider’s price, 0% markup.
- One prepaid balance for every provider; your agent sees the price before it runs.
- Pay for measured usage; unused reservations are released.