Hacker News CLI

by ItamarZand88

Hacker News CLI is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by ItamarZand88 in CLI-Anything-WEB.

215 stars45 forkson ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEBAdded 2026/09/04Repository updated 2026/09/01

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Install Hacker News CLI

Copy Hacker News CLI into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB/tree/main/.claude/skills/hackernews-cli ~/.claude/skills/hackernews-cli

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/hackernews-cli/SKILL.md in ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/hackernews-cli
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1860 skills

What Hacker News CLI does

Hacker News CLI browses stories, comments, search results, and user profiles from the command line. Use it to read HN or, with login, upvote, submit, comment, favorite, and hide items.

Hacker News CLI is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Hacker News CLI comes from a repository tagged agent-native, claude-code, claude-code-plugin, cli and playwright.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

stories top|new|best|ask|show|jobs — story feeds. Options: -n/--limit N (default 30)
stories view STORY_ID — story + comment tree. Options: -n/--limit N (comments, default 10), --no-comments
search stories QUERY / search comments QUERY — Algolia search. Options: -n/--limit N (default 20), --page N (0-indexed), --sort-date (by date instead of relevance)
user view USERNAME — public profile (karma, member since, about)

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Hacker News CLI

What else does ItamarZand88 publish alongside Hacker News CLI?
Hacker News CLI is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Airbnb CLI, Amazon CLI and Boilerplate Generator. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Hacker News CLI does, and is maintained by ItamarZand88 in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the ItamarZand88/CLI-Anything-WEB page.
How does Hacker News CLI compare to other Automation skills?
Hacker News CLI ranks #1653 by stars among the 1860 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Hacker News CLI against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.