# Connect Hacker News to your AI employee

Connect to Hacker News: manage code, deployments, infrastructure, and developer tools. Hire an AI employee, connect Hacker News in one click, and it takes real actions in Hacker News for you: reading, writing, and following up while you get on with something else. Works over OAuth or any MCP server, and no workflow builder is involved.

## Things people ask their AI employee to do in Hacker News

- Summarise what shipped in Hacker News this week in plain English.
- Open an issue in Hacker News whenever a customer reports the same bug twice.
- Review new pull requests in Hacker News and flag anything risky.

## How connecting Hacker News works

- Hire an AI employee from the marketplace. It arrives knowing the job.
- Connect Hacker News in one click through its standard OAuth screen. No API keys.
- Ask for what you want in plain language. It does the work and reports back.

## Why connect Hacker News to an AI agent?

Your AI employee handles the repetitive Hacker News work, on a schedule or on request, and tells you what it did. Hacker News is one of thousands of connections, plus any MCP server you already run, so a single request can cross all of them. Category: Development & DevOps.

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## FAQ

### How do I connect Hacker News to an AI agent?

Hire an AI employee, open its Tools tab, find Hacker News, and click Connect. You authorise access through the standard Hacker News OAuth screen and the connection is live the moment you approve it. There are no API keys to paste and nothing to deploy.

### Do I have to build a workflow or write code?

No. This is not a workflow builder with triggers and branches. You tell your AI employee what you want in plain language, and it decides which Hacker News actions to run. If you want it to happen every week, say that too.

### What can an AI agent actually do inside Hacker News?

Everything Hacker News exposes to us: the full action list is on this page, read and write both. Anything Hacker News itself does not allow is listed as a limit, so you find out here rather than by failing later.

### Is there an MCP server for Hacker News?

You do not need one, the Hacker News connection is built in. If you already run your own MCP server, your AI employee can use that too, alongside the built-in connection.

### Will it work with my other tools at the same time?

Yes, and that is the point. Hacker News is one of thousands of connections, so a single request can read from one tool, act in Hacker News, and report back in your chat.

### Is it safe to give an AI agent access to Hacker News?

You connect Hacker News once at the company level and choose which employees may use it. Sensitive actions can require your approval before they run, and every action the employee takes is logged.