Hacker News in the conversation.
Hacker News is a tech-focused news aggregator by Y Combinator, featuring user-submitted stories and discussions on startups, programming, and emerging trends. Connect it once and your copilot works in it directly without leaving the thread — and your workflows can act on it while the customer is still typing.
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Ask for it in plain language. It does the Hacker News part.
Copilot rides inside the inbox. With Hacker News connected it works there from the same panel as the conversation — no second tab, no copying an order number across.
- Get Max Item ID
- Get Job Story IDs
- Get Hackernews Item
- Get Show HN Stories
- Get Ask HN Story IDs
- Get Hacker News Item
What a specific connection exposes is decided by Hacker News, not by us: Settings → Apps lists the real tools your connection carries, each with its own switch.
Read Hacker News from inside a workflow.
Hacker News is a place a workflow looks things up rather than one that starts it. Trigger on a conversation, a schedule or another app's event, then use an AI Agent step to work in Hacker News and hand the answer to the steps that follow — a message, a CRM update, an escalation.
If Hacker News does publish events to your workspace, they appear in the trigger picker the moment the connection is made.
One step that decides which Hacker News tools to call.
A workflow's AI Agent step runs a bounded tool-calling loop over the apps you have connected and returns an object whose fields you declared. So "find the record, check the status, and give me status and owner" is one step rather than four — and the fields it returns are available to every step after it.
You declare the output
The rows you name become the variables downstream steps read, so a branch can test what Hacker News said.
You cap the effort
A step budget and a model tier per node — the loop stops where you told it to.
Only what you switched on
The loop can call the Hacker News tools you left enabled and nothing else.
Connect Hacker News in about a minute.
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Open Settings → Apps
It is open to everyone in your organization, not just admins — which apps your copilot can reach is part of doing the job.
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Find Hacker News in Browse
The catalogue runs to hundreds of apps and is searchable. Connect Hacker News from its card.
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Authorize with your own Hacker News account
You sign in on Hacker News's own screen and approve the access. The connection carries that account's permissions — no API keys are pasted into Cloodot.
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Choose the tools it may call
Open the connection and switch off anything you would rather it never touched. A tool you switch off is out of reach from the next question onward.
Hacker News questions.
How do I connect Hacker News to Cloodot?
What can Cloodot do in Hacker News?
Can I limit which Hacker News tools Cloodot may use?
Can a workflow use Hacker News without a trigger from it?
Who in my team can connect Hacker News?
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Start free. Connect a channel, train an agent on your own content, and you'll have a working deployment in your inbox the same afternoon.