Hacker News Filter

Search recent Hacker News stories and filter them by story type, date, points, comments, or topic.

Description

Filter normalized Hacker News stories by text, story type, date, points, and comments, then rank the matches without performing network requests.

Hacker News Filter: Filter normalized Hacker News stories by text, story type, date, points, and comments, then rank the matches without performing network requests.

When to use Hacker News Filter

Use this filter to narrow a supplied Hacker News result set by explicit text, score, age, author, type, or URL criteria before reviewing matching stories or comments.

Hacker News stories: Normalized stories supplied by a consuming surface.

How Hacker News Filter works

Filter normalized Hacker News stories by text, story type, date, points, and comments, then rank the matches without performing network requests. The tool evaluates the supplied inputs together and returns the named outputs below; it does not infer omitted operating conditions or change the units shown.^[1]

Matching stories: Stories that match the selected filters.

Worked example

For example, Hacker News stories = [{"author":"alice","commentCount":42,"createdAt":"2026-09-12T12:00:00.000Z","id":"2","points":180,"title":"Show HN: A reproducible model benchmark","url":"https://example.com/benchmark"}, {"author":"bob","commentCount":12,"createdAt":"2026-09-13T09:00:00.000Z","id":"3","points":75,"title":"A database release","url":"https://example.com/database"}, {"author":"carol","commentCount":5,"createdAt":"2026-09-11T10:00:00.000Z","id":"1","points":40,"title":"Ask HN: Which benchmark do you trust?","url":null}], minimumPoints = 100, query = “benchmark”, sortBy = “points” produces Matching stories = [{"author":"alice","commentCount":42,"createdAt":"2026-09-12T12:00:00.000Z","id":"2","points":180,"title":"Show HN: A reproducible model benchmark","url":"https://example.com/benchmark"}], totalMatches = 1.

Limitations and assumptions

Filtering is limited to the records and fields supplied by the selected source. Ranking, deleted items, delayed indexing, text normalization, URL changes, and API availability can affect results; a match does not verify a linked claim.
Use finite inputs in the displayed units and preserve more precision than the final presentation requires. Independently verify safety-critical, financial, compliance, or production decisions.

Alternative or Complementary approaches

Open the original Hacker News item and linked primary source before relying on it. Preserve the query and retrieval time when results need to be reproduced.

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