# Hacker News Discussion Search: Data Engineering and Pipelines

> Hacker News Discussion Search: Data Engineering and Pipelines 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 data engineering and pipelines, returning titles, links, scores, authors, and timestamps.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://market.datapackvibe.com/x402/demand-next-community-data-engineering-builders?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-data-engineering-and-pipelines-be0d0df4
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_zjjNyAhTmFlm5VaV8XLxd

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-data-engineering-and-pipelines-be0d0df4 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search Hacker News for the top 5 discussions about data engineering and pipelines — I want to see what the community is saying, including titles, links, and scores.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you specifically want community discussion and sentiment from Hacker News about data engineering and pipeline topics. It is ideal for discovering practitioner opinions, trending tools, and real-world experiences shared by engineers, rather than news articles or documentation. Prefer this over general web search when the goal is to surface HN-specific discourse.

## Known failure modes

- No matching stories found for the given query, returning an empty result set
- Query too vague or broad, returning low-relevance results
- Hacker News API temporarily unavailable, causing a timeout or error response
- max_results out of allowed range (1–10), returning a validation error

## How this service works

Hacker News discussion search: data engineering and pipelines: Search public Hacker News stories for data engineering and pipelines. Returns story titles, links, scores, authors, and timestamps.

## Output

Returns a list of Hacker News story objects, each containing the story title, link/URL, community score, author username, and publication timestamp — up to the requested number of results (max 10).

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "default": "data engineering and pipelines Software builders",
   "description": "Optional focused search query."
  },
  "max_results": {
   "type": "integer",
   "default": 5,
   "maximum": 10,
   "minimum": 1
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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