# Hacker News Discussion Search for Small Business

> Hacker News Discussion Search for Small Business is a paid API for AI agents from market.datapackvibe.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-01).

Searches publicly indexed Hacker News discussions focused on small business topics using live Bing web search results.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://market.datapackvibe.com/x402/web-hacker-news-discussion-small-business?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-01
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/hacker-news-discussion-search-for-small-business-496ea06b
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ZDleFGKwYPwPhG_FSVtrF

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-small-business-496ea06b -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search Hacker News for discussions about small business cash flow management and return the top 5 results.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you specifically want community perspectives and discussions from Hacker News about small business topics, rather than general web articles or official documentation. Ideal for gathering practitioner opinions, war stories, and tool recommendations from the HN tech-savvy entrepreneur community.

## Known failure modes

- No relevant HN discussions found for the query — returns empty results
- Bing search quota or rate limit exceeded — may return an error or empty response
- Query too broad resulting in low-relevance results
- max_results value out of range (must be 1–10) causes validation error

## How this service works

Hacker News discussion search for Small business: Search publicly indexed Hacker News discussions. Focus: small business. Uses live Bing web search results.

## Output

Returns a list of publicly indexed Hacker News discussion results (up to 10) related to small business topics, sourced via live Bing web search. Each result typically includes a title, URL, and snippet from the matching HN thread.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "default": "site:news.ycombinator.com discussion Small business"
  },
  "max_results": {
   "type": "integer",
   "default": 5,
   "maximum": 10,
   "minimum": 1
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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