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Hacker News Discussion Search: Open-Source Licensing & Compliance
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Hacker News Discussion Search: Open-Source Licensing & Compliance 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 specifically about open-source licensing and compliance topics, returning titles, links, scores, authors, and timestamps.
Price / call$0.01
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How this service works
Hacker News discussion search: open-source licensing and compliance: Search public Hacker News stories for open-source licensing and compliance. Returns story titles, links, scores, authors, and timestamps.
Output
Returns a list of Hacker News stories matching the licensing/compliance query, each containing the story title, a link to the HN discussion or article, the community score (upvotes), the author username, and the posting timestamp.
Example use cases
Research GPL vs MIT community sentiment
“Find the most upvoted Hacker News threads about GPL versus MIT licensing debates — I want to understand what developers actually think about choosing between these licenses. Give me up to 8 results.”
Monitoring AGPL compliance discussions
“Search Hacker News for any recent community discussions about AGPL compliance and commercial software — I'm trying to understand how developers are navigating this issue. Return 5 results.”
Exploring open-source license enforcement news
“Pull Hacker News stories about open-source license enforcement and legal compliance actions — I need to know what the dev community is saying about this. Show me up to 10 results with scores and authors.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://market.datapackvibe.com/x402/demand-next-community-software-licensing-operators?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you specifically need community-curated Hacker News discussions about open-source licensing or compliance topics — it is pre-scoped to that niche, saving you from filtering general HN search results. Prefer it over generic web search when you want developer community sentiment, debate threads, or crowdsourced perspectives on licensing questions rather than formal documentation or news articles.
Side effects
- No results found for overly narrow or unrelated query strings
- max_results out of allowed range (1-10) causes validation error
- Hacker News data unavailability or upstream API errors may return empty or partial results
- Ambiguous queries may return loosely related stories rather than strictly licensing-focused ones
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| query | string | Optional focused search query. |
| max_results | integer |
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