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Monitor top Hacker News stories about AI

Collect current top Hacker News stories for AI and developer trend research with scores, comment counts, author signals, source URLs, discussion URLs, and agent-ready summaries.

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Hacker News Watchlist and Story Monitor
Hacker News Watchlist and Story Monitorskootle/hackernews-watchlist
Output schema version
Record type
Record id
Stream
+13 fields
Text
Number
Boolean
List
Object

Input

Streams to monitor:top
Stories per stream:10
Include author karma + account age:true
Fetch comments per story:false
Comments per story (max):0
Domain allowlist
Minimum score:0
Watchlist mode (idempotent diff):false
Max total records:10

Output fields

Output schema version
Record type
Record id
Stream
Rank
Story type
Title
URL
Domain
Score
Comments
Author
Author karma
Author account age
Created at
Field completeness score
Agent markdown

How it works

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The Hacker News Watchlist and Story Monitor Actor will start running based on the input automatically. You can also change all the input fields, like streams to monitor, stories per stream, and more, to match your specific use case.

Receive the "Monitor top Hacker News stories about AI" output

Monitor the progress in real time. You will be notified as soon as your dataset is complete and ready for review. Each result includes data such as output schema version, record type, record id, and more.

Integrate into your workflow

The final output is delivered in JSON, CSV, or Excel format, ready to be plugged into your workflow. You can also run the "Monitor top Hacker News stories about AI" task via API.

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