# Hacker News API Design Discussion Search

> Hacker News API Design Discussion Search is a paid API for AI agents from market.datapackvibe.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-02).

Searches public Hacker News stories focused on API design and integration practices, returning titles, links, scores, authors, and timestamps.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://market.datapackvibe.com/x402/demand-next-community-api-design-operators?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-02
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/hacker-news-api-design-discussion-search-7fefcc6c
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_FTyrDAtF5illGN2BayvxB

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 hacker-news-api-design-discussion-search-7fefcc6c -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search Hacker News for community discussions about API versioning strategies and return the top 5 results with their scores and links.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need community-sourced developer opinions and discussions specifically from Hacker News about API design and integration practices. It is ideal for sentiment research, best-practice discovery, and benchmarking community consensus on technical API topics. Prefer it over general web search when you want curated, scored, and attributed developer discourse rather than documentation or blog posts.

## Known failure modes

- Query too broad returns low-relevance results — narrow the query for better signal
- max_results exceeding 10 will be rejected by schema validation
- HN search index lag may mean very recent posts are not yet indexed
- Empty result set if query terms match no HN stories
- Network timeout if the upstream Algolia HN Search API is slow or down

## How this service works

Hacker News discussion search: API design and integration practices: Search public Hacker News stories for API design and integration practices. Returns story titles, links, scores, authors, and timestamps.

## Output

Returns a list of Hacker News story objects, each containing the story title, a link to the original post or URL, the HN score (upvotes), the author's username, and the publication timestamp. Results are ranked by relevance to the query.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "default": "API design and integration practices Platform operators",
   "description": "Optional focused search query."
  },
  "max_results": {
   "type": "integer",
   "default": 5,
   "maximum": 10,
   "minimum": 1
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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