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Hacker News integration

A social news website

Actions
1
Triggers
0
License
MIT, open source
Updated
August 2026

About the Hacker News integration

Add the Hacker News piece to a flow, connect your account once, and the rest of the builder can read from it and write to it. Because the piece is open source you can run it on our cloud or self-host it, and combine Hacker News with 760+ other apps in the same flow.

Actions

Everything Activepieces can do in Hacker News

Drop any of these into a flow and fill in the fields. No code is required.

  • Fetch Top Stories

    Fetch top stories from hackernews

    1 field

Use Hacker News in a flow

Connect Hacker News once and every trigger and action above is yours to drop into the builder, alongside 760+ other apps. Free to start, on our cloud or your own servers.

Hacker News, answered.

Yes. Activepieces is open source and free to start, and the Hacker News piece is included on every plan, from the free cloud tier to any self-hosted deployment.

Add the Hacker News piece to a flow. Once connected, its 0 triggers and 1 action are available anywhere in the builder.

Connect Hacker News to any of 760+ other apps and AI steps, then automate the work in between without writing code.

Yes. Activepieces is fully self-hostable, so you can run the Hacker News piece on your own infrastructure with your connections and your data staying in your environment.

Yes. Every piece you connect can be exposed over one Activepieces MCP server, so Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or any MCP client can call Hacker News actions as tools.