# Hacker News Incident & Postmortem Discussion Search

> Hacker News Incident & Postmortem Discussion Search 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 public Hacker News stories for discussions about service incidents, outages, and postmortems, returning titles, links, scores, authors, and timestamps.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://market.datapackvibe.com/x402/demand-next-community-service-incidents-builders?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-incident-postmortem-discussion-search-6f2fd346
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_LjD_DN1fxxZU60PmYcEQB

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-incident-postmortem-discussion-search-6f2fd346 -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 saying about real outages and engineering failures.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need community-curated, crowd-validated discussions about real service incidents and postmortems from Hacker News specifically — ideal for SRE research, benchmarking incident culture, or tracking how the tech community reacted to a specific outage. Prefer this over general web search when you want HN's scoring and author metadata alongside links.

## Known failure modes

- No matching stories found for a very narrow or obscure query — returns empty results
- Max results exceeding 10 will be clamped or rejected by schema validation
- Query too broad may return tangentially related HN stories not specifically about incidents
- Service outages on the underlying HN search index may produce stale or no results

## 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 query, each with the story title, URL link, HN score, author username, and publication timestamp.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

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

## More

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