id_or_urlstring · requiredPositive numeric HN item ID or canonical news.ycombinator.com item URL.
minLength: 1 · maxLength: 2048
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Hacker News
Retrieve one public Hacker News item with a bounded nested comment tree and explicit truncation state.
Retrieve a Hacker News story, job, poll or comment by exact numeric item ID or canonical item URL and return its nested discussion with configurable depth and comment-count limits. IDs stay strings, comment HTML becomes plain text, hierarchy and canonical links remain explicit, and dead, deleted, partial or truncated states are reported rather than silently omitted.
Agents select this operation with tool ID hacker-news.thread, then check its current inputs and price before a run.
id_or_urlstring · requiredPositive numeric HN item ID or canonical news.ycombinator.com item URL.
minLength: 1 · maxLength: 2048
max_commentsinteger · optionalValue supplied for max comments.
minimum: 1 · maximum: 200
max_depthinteger · optionalValue supplied for max depth.
minimum: 0 · maximum: 8
captured_atstringReturned captured at value.
itemobjectReturned item value.
max_depthnumberReturned max depth value.
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omitted_commentsReturned omitted comments value.
returned_commentsnumberReturned returned comments value.
source_urlstringReturned source url value.
total_commentsnumberReturned total comments value.
truncatedbooleanReturned truncated value.
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{
"tool_id": "hacker-news.thread",
"input": {
"id_or_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863",
"max_depth": 2,
"max_comments": 25
}
}{
"item": {
"id": "8863",
"type": "story",
"state": "available",
"title": "My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive",
"author": "dhouston",
"children": [
{
"id": "8865",
"text": "oh, and a mac port is coming :)",
"type": "comment",
"state": "available",
"author": "dhouston",
"parent_id": "8863",
"source_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8865"
}
],
"source_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863"
},
"max_depth": 2,
"truncated": true,
"source_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863",
"captured_at": "2026-08-21T00:00:00.000Z",
"total_comments": 71,
"omitted_comments": 46,
"returned_comments": 25
}not_found: Hacker News could not find that public item.Use an exact positive item ID or canonical news.ycombinator.com item URL.