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Hacker News Search: Application Security Tooling
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Hacker News Search: Application Security Tooling is a paid API for AI agents from market.datapackvibe.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-25).
Searches public Hacker News stories about application security tooling, returning story links, scores, comment counts, authors, and publication dates.
Price / call$0.01
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How this service works
Hacker News search: application security tooling: Search public Hacker News stories about application security tooling. Returns story links, scores, comments, authors, and dates.
Output
Returns a list of Hacker News story records, each containing the story title, URL link, upvote score, number of comments, author username, and publication date — up to the requested maximum number of results (default 5, max 10).
Example use cases
Scouting appsec tools for a tech stack
“Pull the top 5 Hacker News stories about application security tooling so I can see what SAST or DAST tools the dev community is recommending right now.”
Competitive intelligence for security vendors
“Search Hacker News for up to 8 stories about application security tooling — I want to understand how developers are talking about security products and which ones keep coming up.”
Research trending appsec discussions
“Find the top 3 Hacker News posts related to application security tooling and buyers — I need the links, scores, and authors to include in a market research briefing.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://market.datapackvibe.com/x402/pulse-hn-security-tooling-buyers?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need to surface real developer community sentiment and discussion about application security tools from Hacker News specifically — ideal for market research, competitive analysis, or scouting tool recommendations discussed by practitioners. Prefer this over generic web search when the goal is specifically Hacker News stories with scores, comments, and author metadata about appsec tooling.
Side effects
- No matching stories found for the given query, returning empty results
- max_results out of bounds (must be 1–10), causing a validation error
- Hacker News data source temporarily unavailable, causing a timeout or upstream error
- Overly broad or ambiguous query returning irrelevant stories
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| query | string | Optional focused query. |
| max_results | integer |
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