dsh-tool-hackernews

When building technical research, competitive intel, or community-sentiment workflows on DeepSeek Harness, agents often need to pull Hacker News discussions but lack a native tool for that job. dsh-tool-hackernews fills that gap by wrapping the free Algolia HN search API behind three read-only tools, so agents can read the front page, run keyword searches, and drill into a story's comment tree without requesting an API key.

The three tools cover the main reading paths. hn_top_stories returns current front-page entries with titles, links, scores, comment counts, and authors; hn_search lets you query by keyword with optional tag (story, comment, poll, ask_hn, show_hn) and time-window filters; hn_item retrieves a single story together with a depth-bounded, HTML-stripped top-level comment tree that keeps context size predictable. All three are read-only and concurrency-safe, so DSH can schedule parallel calls freely, and each request carries the deployment's cooperative timeout budget while forwarding the caller's AbortSignal.

If you are adding tech-news ingestion to a DSH agent whether that means auto-summarizing the daily HN front page, tracking community feedback on an open-source project, or assembling a competitor-update digest, this plugin is ready out of the box. Every config key is optional, and the defaults cover most use cases with zero configuration.