# Trending Now

See the posts rising fastest on Hacker News, GitHub, Product Hunt and more, with rising keywords. It is free, with no sign-up and no key.

## What does Trending Now do?

The posts rising fastest right now on Hacker News, GitHub, Product Hunt and more, for any topic. One call reads Hacker News, DEV Community, GitHub, Product Hunt, Lobsters and YouTube, for a topic and a time window. Writers, marketers and founders use it to pick what to write or post about today instead of keeping 20 tabs open.

Ask "what is trending in AI in the last 6 hours?", "rising posts about Postgres this week" or "what is new on Product Hunt today?". A topic is a niche (ai (AI and agents), developer-tools (Developer tools), startups (Startups and products), marketing (Marketing and growth), ecommerce (E-commerce), security (Security)) or plain words that must appear in the post.

Each post comes with its link, its source, when it was published, its own count (points, reactions, stars or views), how fast that count is growing per hour, and a heat score from 0 to 100 against the other posts of the same source. Velocity is the change between two reads two hours apart; a post read once is measured from its publish time, and the answer says which.

The answer also lists rising keywords: the words whose share of post titles grew most in the last 3 days against the 3 days before, with the percent change. While the store holds less than six days, the keywords are counts only and keywords_baseline says building.

A second tool gives the daily digest for one niche: the top posts overall, the top five for each source and the keyword rail, the same data as the page at tools.openkrill.app/trending.

Every source is an official API or a public feed, read every two hours by the service itself, so a call never waits on a source. Reddit and X are not read: their terms do not allow it for this use. Titles and links only: no post text, no author names, no accounts. Your question is not stored.

- Lists the fastest-rising posts across Hacker News, DEV Community, GitHub, Product Hunt, Lobsters and YouTube
- Filters by a niche or by words, and by a window from 1 hour to 7 days
- Gives each post its count, gain per hour and a 0 to 100 heat score within its source
- Lists rising keywords with the percent change of their share of titles, 3 days against the 3 before
- Daily digest per niche: top posts overall and the top 5 per source
- Says which sources were read, when, and which failed
- Official APIs and public feeds only; Reddit and X are not read
- Titles and links only: no post text, author names or accounts

## Who it is for

Anyone who asks an AI assistant a question like this one: “What is trending in AI in the last 6 hours?”

## Price

Trending Now is free to use. There is no sign-up, no account and no API key. Calls are limited to 60 calls a minute per network and 25000 calls a day per server, shared by all callers. Repeat questions are answered from a cache.

## Which tools does Trending Now offer?

It has 3 tools. Your assistant picks the one that fits your question and calls it by name.

- `trending`: Rising posts for a topic
- `trending_digest`: Daily trend digest for a niche
- `trending_deals`: Open deals and freebies

## How do I connect Trending Now?

The MCP server is `https://trending.openkrill.app/mcp` (streamable HTTP). It needs no key.

Claude Code, in one command:

```
claude mcp add --transport http trending https://trending.openkrill.app/mcp
```

Hermes Agent, in one command that answers its two setup questions (no key, enable all tools):

```
printf 'n\ny\n' | hermes mcp add trending --url https://trending.openkrill.app/mcp
```

Or add these lines to `~/.hermes/config.yaml`, under an existing `mcp_servers:` key if the file has one. Start a new Hermes session after either step.

```
mcp_servers:
  trending:
    url: https://trending.openkrill.app/mcp
```

Any other agent: give it this page's Markdown address, `https://tools.openkrill.app/tools/trending.md`, and ask it to connect Trending Now.

Paste the address into your assistant once: the [connect steps](https://tools.openkrill.app/#connect) cover Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor, and the [install guides](https://tools.openkrill.app/integrations) show the same steps for each client.

## Job recipes for agents

Step-by-step recipes that walk an agent through 3 jobs with this server's tools:

- Rising posts for a topic, with `trending`
- Daily trend digest for a niche, with `trending_digest`
- Open deals and freebies, with `trending_deals`

[Download the recipes as SKILL.md](https://tools.openkrill.app/skills/trending-jobs/SKILL.md). Save it as `trending-jobs/SKILL.md` in your agent's skills folder. A connected MCP client gets the same recipes from `prompts/list` on this server.

It is listed under Writing, media and files in the [full tool list](https://tools.openkrill.app/tools). The same facts in plain text are in [llms.txt](https://tools.openkrill.app/llms.txt).

Source: the Trending Now listing, version 1.3.0. As of 2026-11-09.