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Hackernews Intel

Category: Security  ·  Sub-category: web-security  ·  Last updated:
Monitors Hacker News for user-configured keywords, deduplicates against a local SQLite cache, and sends Slack alerts for new matching posts. Use when asked to monitor Hacker News for mentions, track keywords on HN, get alerts when something is posted about a topic on Hacker News, or set up HN keyword monitoring. Trigger when a user mentions Hacker News alerts, HN monitoring, keyword tracking on HN, or wants to know when a topic appears on Hacker News.

From the source SKILL.md

Monitor Hacker News for keywords. On each run, fetch new posts via the HN Algolia API, deduplicate against a local SQLite cache, and send Slack alerts for unseen matches. Run manually or schedule via cron or GitHub Actions.

What this skill does

Hackernews Intel is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the web-security sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/hackernews-intel/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when asked to monitor Hacker News for mentions, track keywords on HN, get alerts when something is posted about a topic on Hacker News, or set up HN keyword monitoring. Trigger when a user mentions Hacker News alerts, HN monitoring, keyword tracking on HN, or wants to know when a topic appears on Hacker News.

Who uses this skill

The Hackernews Intel Claude Code skill is built for security engineers, penetration testers, DevSecOps practitioners, and development teams hardening codebases and infrastructure. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 69,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/hackernews-intel
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/hackernews-intel/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/hackernews-intel/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/hackernews-intel/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/hackernews-intel/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\hackernews-intel\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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