# Algolia Hacker News Search by Date (clonecho)

> Algolia Hacker News Search by Date (clonecho) is a paid API for AI agents from clonecho.builda.company, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Searches Hacker News stories and comments sorted newest-first using Algolia's HN search API, returning results as JSON.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://clonecho.builda.company/x402/s/algolia-hn-search-by-date
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/algolia-hacker-news-search-by-date-clonecho-75528460
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_C2UOqEpt_93T-y9M0HU9U

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability algolia-hacker-news-search-by-date-clonecho-75528460 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search Hacker News for the newest posts about 'WebAssembly' and show me what the community has been discussing recently.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need time-sorted (newest-first) Hacker News results rather than relevance-ranked results. Ideal for monitoring recent community discussion about a topic, tracking breaking news reactions on HN, or finding the most recent posts about a specific technology or company. Prefer this over a relevance-sorted HN search when recency matters most.

## Known failure modes

- Empty query string returns no results or an error
- Algolia upstream API downtime causes failure
- Very obscure queries return zero results
- Rate limiting if the endpoint is called too frequently
- Malformed query strings may return unexpected results

## How this service works

Search Hacker News newest-first via Algolia (param q = query). Query: ?q= Returns JSON.

## Output

A JSON object containing Hacker News search results sorted by newest date first, including story titles, authors, publication timestamps, URLs, comment counts, and relevance metadata for posts matching the query.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/algolia-hacker-news-search-by-date-clonecho-75528460/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from clonecho.builda.company](https://www.zero.xyz/host/clonecho.builda.company/llms.txt)