# Hacker News Open-Source Project Discussion Search

> Hacker News Open-Source Project 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 project releases and adoption, returning titles, links, scores, authors, and timestamps.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://market.datapackvibe.com/x402/demand-next-community-open-source-projects-product?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-open-source-project-discussion-search-a1d4c47a
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_TXk2AOmRuEfETuytEaUHx

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-open-source-project-discussion-search-a1d4c47a -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search Hacker News for discussions about open-source project releases and adoption of React Server Components — give me up to 8 results with titles, links, scores, and who posted them.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you specifically need Hacker News community signal — scores, authors, and discussion links — around open-source project releases and adoption. It is best suited for developer-focused research, competitive intelligence on OSS tools, and gauging community sentiment about new releases. Prefer it over general web search when you want curated, ranked developer discourse rather than broad media coverage.

## Known failure modes

- Query returns no results if the topic has no matching HN stories
- max_results out of range (below 1 or above 10) may cause a validation error
- Overly broad queries may return loosely relevant stories
- Hacker News data may have indexing lag for very recent posts
- Service unavailability or payment failure may return a non-200 error

## How this service works

Hacker News discussion search: open-source project releases and adoption: Search public Hacker News stories for open-source project releases and adoption. Returns story titles, links, scores, authors, and timestamps.

## Output

Returns a list of Hacker News stories matching the query, each containing the story title, a link to the original post or article, the HN score (upvotes), the author's HN username, and the publication timestamp. Results are capped at the requested max_results (1–10).

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "default": "open-source project releases and adoption Product teams",
   "description": "Optional focused search query."
  },
  "max_results": {
   "type": "integer",
   "default": 5,
   "maximum": 10,
   "minimum": 1
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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