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title: "Hacker News"
description: "Hacker News stories and comments with your keyword, searched every 5 minutes."
canonical: https://docs.rumoro.dev/platforms/hackernews
markdown: https://docs.rumoro.dev/platforms/hackernews.mdx
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# Hacker News

Hacker News stories and comments with your keyword, searched every 5 minutes.

Rumoro searches Hacker News stories and comments for each keyword every 5 minutes and keeps the ones with the term.

| `platform` | `hackernews` |
| --- | --- |
| Finds | Stories and comments |
| Checked | Every 5 minutes |
| New keyword | The 10 newest posts from the last 30 days |

## What you get

| Field | Holds |
| --- | --- |
| `post.text` | A story's title and text, or a comment's text |
| `author` | Username and profile link |

Score, sentiment, intent and triage work the same on every platform. See the [mention fields](/api/mentions/get-mention).

## Mute an author

Use `news.ycombinator.com/user?id=name` or the username. Story links are refused. See [Mute authors](/alerts#mute-authors).

## Limits

- Changing a keyword's term starts a new look-back.