2s.io Hacker News Item Lookup

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2s.io Hacker News Item Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from 2s.io, paid per call via x402, $0.0012/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Fetches a single Hacker News item (story, comment, job, or poll) by its numeric ID, returning full metadata including author, score, timestamps, and URLs.

Price / call$0.0012

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How this service works

Fetch a specific Hacker News item (story, comment, job, poll) by its numeric ID. Returns id, type, author, time (unix + ISO), title, URL, text, score, descendant count, kid count, parent (for comments), dead/deleted flags, canonical news.ycombinator.com URL.

Output

Returns a JSON object with the HN item's id, type (story/comment/job/poll), author username, unix timestamp, ISO timestamp, title, external URL, text body, score, descendant (total comment) count, number of direct kids, parent item ID (for comments), dead/deleted flags, and the canonical news.ycombinator.com URL for the item.

Example use cases

Example prompt

“Can you pull up the Hacker News item with ID 38975234 and tell me the title, score, author, and how many comments it has?”

Technical details

Endpoint

GEThttps://2s.io/api/news/hn-item

When to prefer

Use this endpoint when you have a specific Hacker News item ID and need full structured metadata about that single item — story, comment, job, or poll. Prefer this over scraping news.ycombinator.com directly, as it returns clean parsed JSON with normalized timestamps and canonical URLs. Best for agent workflows that already have an HN item ID from a search or link and need to resolve its full details.

Side effects

Item ID not found or does not exist — returns 404 or empty result
Invalid or non-integer ID — returns 400 validation error
Deleted or dead items may return with dead/deleted flags set and minimal fields
Payment failure via x402 protocol — item not returned until payment resolves
HN API upstream outage — service may return 5xx or timeout

Input

{
  "input": {
    "type": "http",
    "method": "GET",
    "queryParams": {
      "id": 38975234
    }
  }
}

Schema · Request body

Field	Type	Description
inputrequired	object

Output

{
  "data": {
    "ok": true,
    "items": [
      {
        "by": "raphlinus",
        "id": 38975234,
        "url": null,
        "dead": false,
        "text": "I am very familiar with such low level workings. On a modern, fast machine, the amount of computation required by FM synthesis is so small compared with the machine&#x27;s throughput that it just doesn&#x27;t matter.<p>Yes, on modern chips float math will generally be faster than fixed point. This is not so much because the integer units get clogged, as that there&#x27;s a huge amount of chip area and optimization that goes into the float units (often SIMD, and a lot of FM synthesis can benefit from this, though feedback creates data dependencies). For example, multiply-and-add is usually one cycle in float, but would always be two separate instructions in integers.<p>My recollection is that older ARM chips have a special issue with latency of data dependencies originating from the float unit (NEON, which is optimized for SIMD vector operations) to the integer unit. I suspect this is no longer the case, or is less of an issue.",
        "time": 1705099736,
        "type": "comment",
        "hnUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38975234",
        "score": null,
        "title": null,
        "parent": 38975003,
        "deleted": false,
        "timeIso": "2024-01-12T22:48:56.000Z",
        "kidsCount": 4,
        "descendantsCount": null
      }
    ],
    "total": 1,
    "source": {
      "url": "https://github.com/HackerNews/API",
      "license": "MIT-licensed API (Y Combinator Hacker News)",
      "provider": "Hacker News (Y Combinator) — Firebase API"
    }
  },
  "meta": {
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      "usd": 0.0012,
      "tier": 0
    },
    "caller": "x402",
    "version": null,
    "endpoint": "news.hn-item",
    "settlement": {
      "txHash": "0x66f05fde21332e056646ed1c1580fcb55400bc548f0e57c116c2846a4ae4a287",
      "network": "eip155:8453",
      "success": true
    }
  }
}

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How this service works

Output

Technical details

Endpoint

GEThttps://2s.io/api/news/hn-item

When to prefer

Side effects

Item ID not found or does not exist — returns 404 or empty result
Invalid or non-integer ID — returns 400 validation error
Deleted or dead items may return with dead/deleted flags set and minimal fields
Payment failure via x402 protocol — item not returned until payment resolves
HN API upstream outage — service may return 5xx or timeout

Input

{
  "input": {
    "type": "http",
    "method": "GET",
    "queryParams": {
      "id": 38975234
    }
  }
}

Schema · Request body

Field	Type	Description
inputrequired	object

Output

{
  "data": {
    "ok": true,
    "items": [
      {
        "by": "raphlinus",
        "id": 38975234,
        "url": null,
        "dead": false,
        "text": "I am very familiar with such low level workings. On a modern, fast machine, the amount of computation required by FM synthesis is so small compared with the machine&#x27;s throughput that it just doesn&#x27;t matter.<p>Yes, on modern chips float math will generally be faster than fixed point. This is not so much because the integer units get clogged, as that there&#x27;s a huge amount of chip area and optimization that goes into the float units (often SIMD, and a lot of FM synthesis can benefit from this, though feedback creates data dependencies). For example, multiply-and-add is usually one cycle in float, but would always be two separate instructions in integers.<p>My recollection is that older ARM chips have a special issue with latency of data dependencies originating from the float unit (NEON, which is optimized for SIMD vector operations) to the integer unit. I suspect this is no longer the case, or is less of an issue.",
        "time": 1705099736,
        "type": "comment",
        "hnUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38975234",
        "score": null,
        "title": null,
        "parent": 38975003,
        "deleted": false,
        "timeIso": "2024-01-12T22:48:56.000Z",
        "kidsCount": 4,
        "descendantsCount": null
      }
    ],
    "total": 1,
    "source": {
      "url": "https://github.com/HackerNews/API",
      "license": "MIT-licensed API (Y Combinator Hacker News)",
      "provider": "Hacker News (Y Combinator) — Firebase API"
    }
  },
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      "usd": 0.0012,
      "tier": 0
    },
    "caller": "x402",
    "version": null,
    "endpoint": "news.hn-item",
    "settlement": {
      "txHash": "0x66f05fde21332e056646ed1c1580fcb55400bc548f0e57c116c2846a4ae4a287",
      "network": "eip155:8453",
      "success": true
    }
  }
}