news.ycombinator.com
Top Hacker News stories
Read the top N stories from the Hacker News front page: rank, title, url, points, comments_count and a link to the discussion. The front page lists about 30 stories, so an n above that caps out rather than paginating. A story nobody has commented on yet reports 0 comments; YC job posts carry neither a score nor a discussion, so their points and comments_count are null. If Hacker News is throttling requests from your address, the script says so instead of returning a partial list.
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Read the top N stories from the Hacker News front page: rank, title, url, points, comments_count and a link to the discussion. The front page lists about 30 stories, so an n above that caps out rather than paginating. A story nobody has commented on yet reports 0 comments; YC job posts carry neither a score nor a discussion, so their points and comments_count are null. If Hacker News is throttling requests from your address, the script says so instead of returning a partial list.
Optional: n.
No. It only uses pages of news.ycombinator.com that are reachable without signing in.
Unknown: its author has not declared whether it changes anything on news.ycombinator.com, so treat it as if it could.
Ask an AI agent connected to Reduck to run reduck/news.ycombinator.com/top_stories, or run it from a terminal with the Reduck CLI: npx @reduck-ai/cli@latest run --script reduck/news.ycombinator.com/top_stories
It is part of Reduck's official curated catalogue.