# 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-researchers?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-a38887e6
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Hhepj5P3lITq0m5LPeVg4

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-a38887e6 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search Hacker News for the top 5 discussions about public service incidents and postmortems — I want to see what the community has been talking about recently in terms of outages and reliability failures.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need curated community discussion data specifically from Hacker News about real-world service incidents and postmortems, rather than scraping HN yourself or using a generic web search. It is ideal for SRE teams, reliability researchers, and engineers who want to track how the tech community discusses and reacts to production outages, with structured metadata (score, author, timestamp) returned per story.

## Known failure modes

- No matching stories found for the given query — returns empty result set
- Query too broad or too narrow resulting in irrelevant stories
- Rate limiting or payment failure at the x402 payment layer
- Service temporarily unavailable from the upstream Hacker News data source
- max_results exceeding the allowed maximum of 10 causes validation error

## 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 up to 10 Hacker News stories matching the incident/postmortem query, each containing: story title, URL/link, HN score (upvotes), author username, and publication timestamp.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "default": "public service incidents and postmortems Research teams",
   "description": "Optional focused search query."
  },
  "max_results": {
   "type": "integer",
   "default": 5,
   "maximum": 10,
   "minimum": 1
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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