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Hacker News Open-Source Licensing & Compliance Discussion Search
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Hacker News Open-Source Licensing & Compliance 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 2026-10-02).
Searches public Hacker News stories for discussions about open-source licensing and compliance, 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 up to 10 Hacker News stories matching the licensing/compliance query, each with story title, URL, upvote score, author username, and publication timestamp.
Example use cases
Startup license strategy research
“Can you search Hacker News for discussions where startup founders talk about choosing between MIT, Apache, and GPL licenses for their products? Show me up to 10 results with scores and authors.”
GPL compliance risk assessment
“Pull the top Hacker News threads about GPL license compliance risks for commercial software — I want to see what the developer community is saying, with links and timestamps.”
AGPL vs commercial license debate
“Find recent Hacker News stories where people debate AGPL licensing versus commercial licenses for SaaS products — give me up to 5 results with author names and scores.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://market.datapackvibe.com/x402/demand-next-community-software-licensing-founders?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need community sentiment, real developer discussions, or startup founder perspectives on open-source licensing topics from Hacker News specifically — especially useful for trend research, legal risk awareness, or gauging ecosystem opinion rather than authoritative legal sources.
Side effects
- No matching stories found for a very narrow or unusual query, returning empty results
- HN search index lag meaning very recent posts may not appear
- max_results exceeding 10 results in a validation error
- Network timeout if Hacker News data source is temporarily unavailable
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| query | string | Optional focused search query. |
| max_results | integer |
Tags
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