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Monitor Hacker News for posts matching keywords via Algolia API. Returns title, URL, score, author, and comment count.

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Developer

Fred Deichler

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Monthly active users

4 days ago

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Input

keywords (required): Comma-separated keywords to search for
hitsPerPage (optional): Max results (default: 20, max: 100)

Output

Each dataset row:

{
  "title": "Show HN: A new AI tool",
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "points": 42,
  "author": "username",
  "num_comments": 15,
  "objectID": "12345678",
  "created_at": "2026-07-03T12:00:00.000Z",
  "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12345678"
}

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