# Hacker News Discussion Search: Public Service Incidents & Postmortems

> Hacker News Discussion Search: Public Service Incidents & Postmortems is a paid API for AI agents from market.datapackvibe.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-03).

Searches Hacker News stories for discussions about public service incidents and postmortems, returning titles, links, scores, authors, and timestamps.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://market.datapackvibe.com/x402/demand-next-community-service-incidents-founders?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-03
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/hacker-news-discussion-search-public-service-incidents-postmortems-321a369a
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_lqhQgiiEaBHN_80M3j4ct

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-public-service-incidents-postmortems-321a369a -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search Hacker News for discussions about public service incidents and postmortems — give me the top 5 results with titles, links, scores, and who posted them.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need community-curated, crowd-scored discussions about service incidents and postmortems specifically from Hacker News, rather than general web search. It is ideal when the goal is to surface how the engineering and founder community discusses outages, rather than fetching raw incident reports from official sources. Prefer it over general news search endpoints when the target audience cares about HN upvotes, community commentary, and the tech practitioner perspective on reliability events.

## Known failure modes

- No results returned if query is too narrow or niche — try broadening the search query
- max_results out of range (must be 1–10) causes validation error
- Network timeout if HN search backend is slow to respond
- Empty result set if HN has no indexed stories matching the query terms

## How this service works

Hacker News discussion search: public service incidents and postmortems: Search public Hacker News stories for public service incidents and postmortems. Returns story titles, links, scores, authors, and timestamps.

## Output

Returns a list of Hacker News story objects matching the search query, each containing the story title, a direct link to the HN discussion or source article, the community upvote score, the submitting author's username, and the submission timestamp. Results are capped at 10 items per call.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "default": "public service incidents and postmortems Startup founders",
   "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-public-service-incidents-postmortems-321a369a/health.json
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