# Hacker News Discussion Search: API Design and Integration Practices

> Hacker News Discussion Search: API Design and Integration Practices 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 for discussions about 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-researchers?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-discussion-search-api-design-and-integration-practices-a38772b5
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_341cHTDY1cbL9xiHd37Y0

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-discussion-search-api-design-and-integration-practices-a38772b5 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search Hacker News for the top 5 community discussions about API design and integration practices — I want to see what developers are saying about REST API versioning and gateway patterns.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to quickly surface real developer community sentiment and discussion threads specifically about API design and integration topics from Hacker News, without having to scrape or authenticate with HN directly. It is ideal for research agents, developer tool builders, and content aggregators that want curated community signal on API practices at low cost per query.

## Known failure modes

- No matching stories found for the query — returns empty results list
- Query too broad returns low-relevance results — tune the query string
- max_results out of range (must be 1–10) returns validation error
- Payment failure or x402 protocol error blocks the request
- Hacker News upstream search API unavailable causes timeout or error

## 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 up to 10 Hacker News stories matching the query, each with the story title, URL, HN score, author username, and submission timestamp.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

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

## More

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