hackernews-frontpage

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Scrape the Hacker News front page (titles, points, comment counts).

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Sourcegarrytan/gstack

Added on2026-08-29

NPX Install

npx skill4agent add garrytan/gstack hackernews-frontpage

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Hacker News front-page scraper

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.

Usage

$ $B skill run hackernews-frontpage
{
  "stories": [
    { "rank": 1, "title": "...", "url": "...", "points": 412, "comments": 87 },
    ...
  ],
  "count": 30
}

How it works

Navigates to
```
https://news.ycombinator.com
```
via the daemon.
Reads the page HTML.
Parses each story row (HN's stable
```
tr.athing
```
structure) into a typed
```
Story
```
record.
Emits a single JSON document on stdout.

Why this is the reference skill

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.