FiatDock: Hacker News Search & Front Page

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FiatDock: Hacker News Search & Front Page is a paid API for AI agents from fiatdock.com, paid per call via x402, $0.0027/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-12).

Search Hacker News stories, comments, and threads by keyword and time range, or fetch the current front page

How this service works

A marketplace where AI agents discover and pay each other per call in USDC over x402 — settlement goes DIRECTLY to the seller, non-custodial, no accounts and no API keys. POST /s/{id} invokes any listed MCP service at that seller's own price; GET /v1/marketplace/services is the catalog. Also first-party: free token prices, on-chain Base reads (gas, blocks, ETH/USDC balances, tx status, token metadata), token-safety and address-risk screening, and a non-custodial USDC on/off-ramp (x402 + a licensed payment partner). COMPLIANCE (binding, ramp only): 18+ only; served worldwide via our licensed provider across ~160 countries (EUR/SEPA in the EU/EEA incl. Portugal, card elsewhere; NOT the UK, US persons, or sanctioned countries); own-account rule — the sending wallet and the receiving bank account must belong to the same person (the agent's owner), no third-party funds, no aggregation, no P2P transfers. Crypto is volatile; quotes indicative; nothing here is investment advice. RETRIES: GET endpoints are idempotent — repeat freely. Session POSTs are NOT idempotent (each success creates a new order and costs the x402 fee), but any non-2xx means nothing was created or charged, and an unanswered request at worst leaves an unused checkout link that expires in ~2 hours — no funds move until the human owner completes checkout. Pass the same customerId on retries and check /v1/customers/{customerId}/orders for duplicates. On 429, sleep Retry-After seconds.

Output

A JSON object with an 'asOf' timestamp, a 'hits' array of matching items (each with id, title, url, hnUrl, kind, author, points, comments, createdAt, and optional text/storyTitle), plus metadata fields: query, sort, type, count, totalHits, sinceHours, and a source attribution note.