# Hacker News Discussion Search for Procurement

> Hacker News Discussion Search for Procurement is a paid API for AI agents from market.datapackvibe.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-23).

Searches publicly indexed Hacker News discussions focused on procurement topics using live Bing web search results

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://market.datapackvibe.com/x402/web-hacker-news-discussion-procurement?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-23
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/hacker-news-discussion-search-for-procurement-95b6886d
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_DqSvdikl8of0y2iIOVmWD

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-for-procurement-95b6886d -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you search Hacker News for discussions about procurement automation? Pull the top 5 results.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need community-sourced perspectives from the Hacker News tech audience specifically on procurement topics, and want live web search freshness rather than a static database. Prefer this over general web search endpoints when HN community opinion or developer-centric procurement discussion is specifically needed.

## Known failure modes

- No results returned if Bing finds no indexed HN discussions matching the query
- Rate limiting or payment failure if USDC payment is not properly attached
- Stale or irrelevant results if Bing index has not recently crawled the HN threads
- max_results out of range (must be 1-10) returns a validation error

## How this service works

Hacker News discussion search for Procurement: Search publicly indexed Hacker News discussions. Focus: procurement. Uses live Bing web search results.

## Output

Returns a list of Hacker News discussion results (up to 10) sourced via live Bing search, including thread titles, URLs, and snippets relevant to the procurement-focused query

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "default": "site:news.ycombinator.com discussion Procurement"
  },
  "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-for-procurement-95b6886d/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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