# Hacker News Discussion Search: Software Security & Vulnerability Response

> Hacker News Discussion Search: Software Security & Vulnerability Response 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 about software security and vulnerability response, returning titles, links, scores, authors, and timestamps.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://market.datapackvibe.com/x402/demand-next-community-software-security-builders?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-02
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/hacker-news-discussion-search-software-security-vulnerability-response-ea07e9ee
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_FTegua0BaD6VcVgrd4M6o

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-software-security-vulnerability-response-ea07e9ee -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search Hacker News for the top 5 community discussions about software security and vulnerability response — I want to see what developers are talking about right now.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you specifically want Hacker News community discussions — not news articles or CVE databases — about software security and vulnerability response. It is ideal for gauging developer sentiment, finding crowdsourced expert commentary, or discovering community-vetted links on security topics. Prefer this over general web search when you want the hacker/builder community's perspective rather than formal security advisories.

## Known failure modes

- No results found for a very niche or oddly phrased query — returns empty list
- Query too vague returns off-topic HN stories with tangential security mentions
- Rate limiting or upstream HN/Algolia API downtime causes request failure
- max_results out of range (below 1 or above 10) causes validation error
- Payment not completed causes 402 response and no data returned

## How this service works

Hacker News discussion search: software security and vulnerability response: Search public Hacker News stories for software security and vulnerability response. Returns story titles, links, scores, authors, and timestamps.

## Output

Returns a list of up to 10 Hacker News stories matching the security query, each containing the story title, link to the HN thread or source, upvote score, author username, and publication timestamp.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "default": "software security and vulnerability response Software builders",
   "description": "Optional focused search query."
  },
  "max_results": {
   "type": "integer",
   "default": 5,
   "maximum": 10,
   "minimum": 1
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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