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hacker-news

Skill for reading Hacker News from chat — top / new / best stories plus thread fetches via the public Firebase API.

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By Ghast AI0 GitHub starsUpdated 3 hours ago

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Aug 30, 2026
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Get the plugin

git clone https://github.com/Trapezohe/ghast-plugins

Clone the source repository, then follow its setup instructions to add the plugin to a compatible client. The plugin root is plugins/hacker-news/.

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Plugin files

plugins/hacker-news/
├── plugin.json
└── skills/hacker-news/SKILL.md

Included Skills1

hacker-newsskills/hacker-news/SKILL.md

Use this skill when the user asks "what's on Hacker News", "show me HN top stories", "what's trending in tech", or asks to dig into a specific HN story or comment thread. Hits HN's public Firebase API (no auth).

Plugin manifests1

plugins/hacker-news/plugin.json
{
  "$schema": "https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json",
  "name": "hacker-news",
  "description": "Skill for reading Hacker News from chat — top / new / best stories plus thread fetches via the public Firebase API.",
  "author": {
    "name": "Ghast AI",
    "url": "https://ghast.trapezohe.ai"
  },
  "homepage": "https://github.com/Trapezohe/ghast-plugins/tree/main/plugins/hacker-news",
  "extensions": {
    "ai.trapezohe.ghast": {
      "category": "news",
      "icon": "./assets/icon.svg"
    }
  }
}

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