# Algolia Hacker News Search via clonecho

> Algolia Hacker News Search via 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).

Search Hacker News stories and comments by relevance using Algolia's HN search index

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://clonecho.builda.company/x402/s/algolia-hn-search
- 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-via-clonecho-0ade9c10
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_XEwOJz8R43xhAISHA0zrV

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-via-clonecho-0ade9c10 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search Hacker News for discussions about 'WebAssembly' and show me the most relevant stories and comments.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to search Hacker News content by relevance (not just recency) using Algolia's full-text index. Prefer this over scraping HN directly or using HN's native search for structured JSON output with relevance ranking.

## Known failure modes

- Empty results if query is too niche or misspelled
- Rate limiting or payment failure if USDC balance is insufficient
- Malformed JSON if upstream Algolia API is unavailable
- Missing or null fields if a story has incomplete metadata

## How this service works

Search Hacker News stories and comments by relevance via Algolia (param q = query). Query: ?q= Returns JSON.

## Output

A JSON array of Hacker News stories and/or comments ranked by relevance to the query, including fields such as post title, URL, author, score, timestamp, and comment text where applicable.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/algolia-hacker-news-search-via-clonecho-0ade9c10/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)