An AI teammate for Hacker News.
Connect Hacker News and your Cicada agent works in it for you: 6 Hacker News actions, from looking things up to making changes. Ask from iMessage, WhatsApp, Slack or the app, and keep it read-only if you only want it to look.
300 free credits. No card. Read-only if you want.
- What's new in Hacker News this week?
- Pull the latest from Hacker News into a sheet.
- Tell me when something important changes in Hacker News.
- Do the weekly Hacker News update and send me the summary.
6 Hacker News actions, picked for what you ask.
About Hacker News: Hacker News is a tech-focused news aggregator by Y Combinator, featuring user-submitted stories and discussions on startups, programming, and emerging trends
Reads
6 in all · always allowed- Get Hackernews ItemGet a specific item from Hacker News using its id. limits response size to prevent context overflow.
- Get Hackernews UserGet a specific user from Hacker News using their username.
- Search Hackernews PostsGet relevant posts from Hacker News based on a full-text query and optional filters.
- Get Hackernews FrontpageGet the frontpage posts of Hacker News.
- Get Hackernews Today PostsGet today's posts from Hacker News.
- Get Latest Hackernews PostsGet the latest posts from Hacker News based on optional filters.
Changes
0 in all · off when Hacker News is read-onlyNone in this app.
Showing 6 of 6. Your agent can use every one of them; you don't pick them, you ask for the outcome.
Connected in a minute. In your control after that.
Connect Hacker News
Open Connections, find Hacker News and press Connect. You sign in on Hacker News's own page; there's nothing to configure.
Choose what it may do
Full, Ask first or Read-only, for the whole workspace. Share Hacker News with the team, or keep it under each person's own login.
Ask from anywhere
Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, message it in Slack or the app, or put a Hacker News job on a schedule: every morning, every Friday.
Hacker News, together with the rest of your stack.
Ask for an outcome that spans apps and your agent pulls from each one, cross-checks them and sends back one answer.
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Hacker News and Cicada, answered.
Does Cicada integrate with Hacker News?
Yes. Hacker News is one of the 888 apps with a page here, and it connects with one click. Once it's connected, every agent in your workspace can use it from any channel you talk to them on.
How do I connect Hacker News?
Open Connections, find Hacker News and press Connect. You sign in on Hacker News's own page; there's nothing to configure.
What can Cicada do in Hacker News?
6 actions: 6 that read from Hacker News and 0 that change things in it, for example get hackernews item, get hackernews user, search hackernews posts. It picks the right ones for what you ask and chains them with your other apps.
Can I stop Cicada changing things in Hacker News?
Yes. In Connections, set Hacker News to Read-only and no agent in your workspace can create, change or delete anything in it; it can still read. Ask first lets it act but makes it check with you before each change.
Can I ask about Hacker News from my phone?
Yes. Text your agent on iMessage or WhatsApp, or message it in Slack or the app. It answers in the same thread, and it can run Hacker News jobs on a schedule, like every morning at 8.
Is my Hacker News data safe?
Your Hacker News login or key is stored on the server and never appears in a conversation. Disconnecting removes it. Every action an agent takes is in your activity log, and your data isn't used to train models.
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