Hacker News

Uses the public HN Search API by Algolia to find sufficiently popular stories matching configured keywords and comments that mention a username.

Pollen Types

Type	Description
hn_top_story	A matching story meets min_points
hn_mention	A comment contains an exact username mention

No credential is required:

/hive hire hackernews

Configuration

{
  "hackernews": {
    "enabled": true,
    "watch_keywords": ["specific project"],
    "username": "your-hn-name",
    "min_points": 100,
    "max_items": 100,
    "max_pages": 3,
    "keywords_per_poll": 2
  }
}

Field	Default	Description
watch_keywords	[]	Up to 20 bounded search terms; case-equivalent duplicates are folded
username	""	Optional HN username for comment mention searches
min_points	100	Story points threshold, from 0 to 1,000,000,000
max_items	100	Algolia page size, from 1 to 100
max_pages	3	Search page cap, from 1 to 5
keywords_per_poll	2	Keyword searches rotated through per poll, from 1 to 5

Algolia is a search index rather than the canonical Firebase item API, so indexing delay and search semantics remain upstream limitations.