"hn" is ambiguous and none of the sources is Hacker News itself, so the closest matches are tools that read Hacker News or social discussion data. ThreadSnoop 8 and glim.sh 10 offer agent-ready live social and web data, and Stack Exchange 9 is a Q&A community with an API; if you meant Hacker News specifically, please say so.
A question back: Do you mean Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com) specifically, or another product called hn?
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ThreadSnoopthreadsnoop.comwebsite read, tools not yet checked
Gives AI agents Reddit search and read access over an API and MCP, which is the nearest equivalent for community discussion data 8.
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Stack Exchange APIstackexchange.comverified and signed
Exposes the Stack Exchange network's questions and events through an API for reading community Q&A content 9.
official:API · StackExchange+4 community tools built for it
for agents: GET /events · GET /sites · GET /questions/{ids}
Sources
- 8Reddit API/MCP for AI Agents — Claude & Codex | ThreadSnoopthreadsnoop.com · read 2026-10-29
- 9Hot Questions - Stack Exchangestackexchange.com · read 2026-10-29
- 10glim.sh - live data for any agentglim.sh · read 2026-10-29
For agents: the 10 actions behind this answer
typespec-create-api-plugin · typespec-create-api-plugin verified and signed
Generate a TypeSpec API plugin with REST operations, authentication, and Adaptive Cards for Microsoft 365 Copilot
rssArticleGet · Cloudflare API verified and signed
Get Threat Signals article
· Rapidapi website read, tools not yet checked
Explore your APIs
API · python-http-client verified and signed
search_news · Naver Search verified and signed
Search Naver News by keyword. Returns article title, link, original publisher link, and publication date.
ListSanctionsPressure · SanctionsService API verified and signed
ListSanctionsPressure
· Rumoro website read, tools not yet checked
Social listening tool and API for AI agents. Follow Reddit, X, Hacker News and 13 more sources and send what matters to Slack or your agent.
· ThreadSnoop website read, tools not yet checked
The Reddit API/MCP for AI agents — give Claude and Codex free Reddit search and read access for research, monitoring, and lead gen. curl, Python, MCP ready.
GET /events · StackExchange verified and signed
Returns a stream of events that have occurred on the site. The API considers the following "events": - posting a question - posting an answer - posting a comment - editing a post - creating a u
· glim.sh website read, tools not yet checked
One remote endpoint gives your agent live data from Twitter, Reddit, the open web, GitHub and more. No API keys, no scraping stack - just connect the URL and go.
Labels are the instruments' verdict and are never changed by ranking. Agents and robots get this same answer as JSON at /api/v1/find?q=…&answer=1 and through the MCP server.