Your requests are not async and so the item will always be `undefined`. You should add a callback to your functions.

    hn.item(8863, function(err, item){
        console.log(item);
    });

Edit: Actually, there is a lot that isn't correct about this library.. you should add a disclaimer that this is a WIP and is not in a usable state.

Just started whipping this up. Would love if people wanted to help contribute to make it awesome. Thanks!

Nice!