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DopamineDesk Hacker News Top Stories API
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DopamineDesk Hacker News Top Stories API is a paid API for AI agents from ai-data-marketplace-1042299154756.us-central1.run.app, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).
Returns the current top stories from Hacker News, including title, URL, author, points, and comment count.
Price / call$0.02
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Fetch current top-story metadata and discussion links from the official Hacker News Firebase API.
Output
Returns a JSON array of top Hacker News stories, each containing an integer story ID, title string, URL, author username, integer points score, and integer comment count. The number of stories returned is controlled by the optional `limit` parameter (default 30).
Example use cases
Morning tech briefing for developers
“Pull the top 20 Hacker News stories this morning and summarize the titles and point counts so I can quickly see what the dev community is buzzing about.”
Trending topic monitoring for content team
“Fetch the current top 30 Hacker News posts — I want to see what topics are trending so we can decide what to write about this week.”
Curating links for a newsletter
“Get me the top 15 stories from Hacker News today including the URLs and author names — I'm putting together our weekly developer newsletter and need the best links.”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://ai-data-marketplace-1042299154756.us-central1.run.app/api/v1/hacker_news_topWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need live, ranked Hacker News front-page data in a single pay-per-call request without managing your own scraper or API key. It is ideal for agents that need fresh tech-community trending content on demand and want USDC micropayment settlement via x402 on Base rather than subscription billing.
Side effects
- Invalid or out-of-range limit value returns a validation error
- Upstream Hacker News data unavailable may cause empty or partial results
- Network timeout if the upstream feed is slow
- Payment/x402 settlement failure blocks the request before data is returned
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| inputrequired | object | |
| output | object |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"data": [
"[nested detail omitted from the challenge header; see the full example in /openapi.json]"
],
"count": 2,
"source": "Hacker News Firebase API",
"success": true,
"fetched_at": "2026-08-07T07:32:38.144Z",
"marketplace_metadata": {
"source": "Hacker News Firebase API",
"billable": true,
"data_mode": "live_source",
"availability": "operational"
}
}
}Tags
x402
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