# Hacker News Discussion Search: Developer API Pricing and Quotas

> Hacker News Discussion Search: Developer API Pricing and Quotas 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 developer API pricing and quotas, returning titles, links, scores, authors, and timestamps.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://market.datapackvibe.com/x402/demand-next-community-technical-pricing-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-developer-api-pricing-and-quotas-67d36215
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_IixP1eD316hJJ8FQQvJur

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-developer-api-pricing-and-quotas-67d36215 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search Hacker News for the top 5 discussions about developer API pricing and quotas — I want to see what the community is saying about costs and rate limits.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to quickly surface what the Hacker News developer community is saying about API pricing and quota topics, without building your own HN scraper or integrating directly with the Algolia HN Search API. Ideal for competitive intelligence, developer sentiment analysis, or content research workflows that specifically value the HN audience's technical perspective on API economics.

## Known failure modes

- No matching stories found for the query — returns empty results list
- Query too broad or too narrow — may yield irrelevant or zero results
- HN search API unavailable upstream — service error or timeout
- max_results out of allowed range (1–10) — validation error
- Payment failure via x402 protocol — call not executed

## How this service works

Hacker News discussion search: developer API pricing and quotas: Search public Hacker News stories for developer API pricing and quotas. Returns story titles, links, scores, authors, and timestamps.

## Output

Returns a list of up to 10 Hacker News story objects, each containing the story title, a link to the HN thread or original article, the HN score (upvotes), the author's username, and the publication timestamp.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

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

## More

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