# 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-founders?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-fd48d00a
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_kHKW-AMxVMIT9YzFCTEqC

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-fd48d00a -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search Hacker News for the top 5 community discussions on API design and integration practices — I want to see what founders and developers are actually saying about this topic right now.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you specifically need to tap into Hacker News community discourse around API design and integration topics — especially useful for gauging developer and founder sentiment, finding curated discussions, or sourcing references from the tech community. Prefer this over general web search when you want structured metadata (score, author, timestamp) from HN stories specifically, and when the topic squarely relates to API design, REST, GraphQL, webhooks, or developer integration practices.

## Known failure modes

- No matching stories found for the given query, returning an empty result set
- Query too broad or too narrow yielding low-relevance results
- Hacker News API rate limiting causing request failure
- Invalid max_results value outside the 1–10 range causing a validation error
- Network timeout if the upstream Hacker News API is slow to respond

## 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 stories matching the query, each including the story title, URL link, upvote score, author username, and post timestamp — up to the requested number of results (max 10).

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

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

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/hacker-news-api-design-discussion-search-fd48d00a/health.json
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