# Hacker News Discussion Search: Developer Tools & Workflow Automation

> Hacker News Discussion Search: Developer Tools & Workflow Automation 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 tools and workflow automation, returning titles, links, scores, authors, and timestamps.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://market.datapackvibe.com/x402/demand-next-community-developer-tools-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-developer-tools-workflow-automation-6d563957
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_xhOqMhAW0niDxZfOJMteL

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-tools-workflow-automation-6d563957 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search Hacker News for the top 5 stories about workflow automation tools and show me the titles, scores, and links.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need real-time community sentiment and discussions from Hacker News specifically about developer tools and workflow automation. Prefer it over general web search when you want scored, curated developer community opinions with author and timestamp context rather than raw web results.

## Known failure modes

- No results found for highly specific or obscure queries
- max_results exceeding 10 returns a validation error
- Hacker News API downtime may cause empty or error responses
- Very broad queries may return low-relevance results

## How this service works

Hacker News discussion search: developer tools and workflow automation: Search public Hacker News stories for developer tools and workflow automation. 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, score (upvotes), author username, and timestamp of submission.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "default": "developer tools and workflow automation Research teams",
   "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-discussion-search-developer-tools-workflow-automation-6d563957/health.json
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