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Daily feed of Show HN posts about AI tools, agents, LLMs and MCP — powered by the official Algolia Hacker News Search API.

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Hacker News Show HN AI Launch Tracker — New AI Tools Feed

Daily feed of Show HN posts about AI tools, agents, LLMs and MCP — powered by the official Algolia Hacker News Search API.

What does HN Show HN AI Launches do?

This Actor pulls Show HN stories matching AI / LLM / agent / MCP keywords from the Algolia HN Search API, returning title, URL, points, comments as structured dataset rows. Schedule it hourly or daily to never miss a launch. Strict whole-word matching removes fuzzy false positives; usernames are excluded by default.

Why use it?

Official Algolia HN API — free, no key, no scraping
Filter by date, points and custom query
Ideal input for newsletters, directories and competitor intel agents
Fail-loudly empty-result guard

Data source

Algolia HN Search API https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search_by_date (public, undocumented-but-stable HN community API).

Input

keywords: Keywords (merged, de-duplicated)
query: Optional single query override
tags: HN tags (default show_hn)
postedAfter: YYYY-MM-DD
minPoints: Minimum score
maxItems: Cap

Example input:

{
  "keywords": [
    "AI",
    "agent",
    "MCP"
  ],
  "postedAfter": "2026-10-01",
  "minPoints": 5,
  "maxItems": 50
}

Output

Each dataset item looks like this:

{
  "title": "Show HN: An AI agent that books meetings",
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1",
  "points": 42,
  "num_comments": 18
}

Export as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or pull via the Apify API, webhooks, Make, Zapier, n8n or the Apify MCP server.

How much does it cost?

Pay per event: $0.001 per run + $0.0015 per result (≈ $1.50 per 1,000 results). You are never charged for results on a failed run: if no data is found, the run fails loudly with an explanation instead of returning an empty "success".

Use cases

AI newsletter curators
Directory operators sourcing new tools
VCs tracking AI launches
Agents that auto-summarize new Show HN AI posts

Scheduling & monitoring

Schedule it daily or weekly in Apify Console and connect a webhook/Slack/email integration to get new items automatically.

FAQ

Is this legal? It uses the public Algolia HN Search API. Story content is public HN data.. No personal data is collected.

Something broke? Open an issue on the Issues tab; the actor is tested daily.

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