Show HN Tracker

Track Show HN launches on Hacker News. Built for PR, comms, media-monitoring teams and AI agents.

⏰ Run this as a launch watch (recommended)

This is a monitoring subscription, not a one-shot lookup. Schedule a sweep and catch new launches as they land:

{
  "streams": ["show_hn"],
  "minPoints": 10,
  "maxStoriesPerStream": 100
}

A weekly cron (0 8 * * 1) turns this into an always-on launch watch.

📊 What you get

Clean JSON, one record per story (full output has 14 fields):

• title — story title
• url — the submitted link (null for text-only posts)
• hn_url — permalink to the Hacker News discussion
• points — upvotes at fetch time
• author — submitter's HN username
• num_comments — comment count at fetch time
• created_at / created_at_i — submission time (ISO and Unix)
• story_text — post body for text submissions
• stream — which feed the row came from (show_hn, ask_hn, front_page, story)
• tags — Algolia _tags for the story
• object_id — Hacker News item id
• comments — top 5 comments, only when includeComments is true

Values are whatever the Hacker News Algolia index reports at fetch time; points and comment counts on a fresh post are often low or zero.

Pricing: $0.02 per story (Pay-Per-Event) — about 50 stories per $1. An Actor Start fee of $0.00005 applies per run (charged per GB of memory, minimum 1).

🤖 Use with AI agents

Point Claude, the OpenAI Agents SDK, an n8n flow or any MCP-aware client at it and run Hacker News Show HN launch monitoring on demand.

Sample agent prompt:

List new Show HN launches this week with points and comments.

Agentic payments (x402): Supports agentic payment via x402 — agents can call this actor with USDC, no API key required.

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Data from public news, press-wire and media sources.