Retrieve the top 30 stories from the Hacker News front page as JSON, a structured data format. Each entry includes its rank, title, link, points, and comment count for reviewing stories and their engagement.
Scrape the Hacker News front page (titles, points, comment counts).
hackernews-frontpage retrieves the top 30 stories from the Hacker News front page and returns them as JSON, a structured data format. Each story includes its rank, title, link URL, points, and comment count. The story list and the number of retrieved entries are combined in one result, so you can review both the front-page content and the responses to individual stories from the same data.
Use it to check which stories are currently on the Hacker News front page or to compare their points and comment counts. It also helps when you want to collect titles and links together, or receive the list as JSON for further processing.
Execution uses $B skill run hackernews-frontpage and an environment with the browser automation daemon described in the material. No login is required. The scope is the front page, and retrieval depends on parsing its HTML structure. Changes to the site’s structure may therefore affect retrieval.
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Scrapes the Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com) front page and returns the
top 30 stories as JSON. Each story has its rank, title, link URL, point count,
and comment count.
$ $B skill run hackernews-frontpage
{
"stories": [
{ "rank": 1, "title": "...", "url": "...", "points": 412, "comments": 87 },
...
],
"count": 30
}
https://news.ycombinator.com via the daemon.tr.athing structure) into a typed
Story record.hackernews-frontpage is the smallest interesting browser-skill: no auth,
stable HTML, deterministic output, file-fixture-friendly. Every Phase 1
component (SDK, scoped tokens, three-tier lookup, spawn lifecycle) is
exercised by $B skill run hackernews-frontpage and the bundled
script.test.ts.
When the HN HTML rotates and our selectors break, the test fails against the captured fixture before users notice. That's the point.
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