# Hacker News Search: Application Security Tooling

> 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.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://market.datapackvibe.com/x402/pulse-hn-security-tooling-buyers?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-25
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/hacker-news-search-application-security-tooling-05844492
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_wYPMR9uhGvZNmFoEVFcnk

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-search-application-security-tooling-05844492 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search Hacker News for the top 5 stories about application security tooling — I want to see what the developer community is currently discussing about appsec tools.

## When to prefer this

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.

## Known failure modes

- 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

## 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).

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "default": "application security tooling Technology buyers",
   "description": "Optional focused query."
  },
  "max_results": {
   "type": "integer",
   "default": 5,
   "maximum": 10,
   "minimum": 1
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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