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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 2026-10-21).
Searches public Hacker News stories about application security tooling, returning story links, scores, comments, authors, and 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 up to 10 Hacker News stories matching the query, each containing the story URL, title, Hacker News score, comment count, author username, and publication date.
Example use cases
AppSec tool landscape research
“Can you search Hacker News for the top 10 stories about application security tooling? I want to see what tools developers are buzzing about right now, with scores and links.”
Agent builder security tool discovery
“Find me recent Hacker News stories specifically about security tooling for agent builders — up to 5 results with authors and dates so I can track who's posting about this.”
Competitive intelligence on SAST/DAST tools
“Search Hacker News for discussions about application security tooling — show me 8 results so I can see what the community is saying and which tools are getting attention.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://market.datapackvibe.com/x402/pulse-hn-security-tooling-agent-builders?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you specifically want community sentiment, discussions, and linked resources from Hacker News about application security tooling — ideal for developer-focused market research, trend spotting, or discovering tools that the security-conscious dev community endorses. Prefer this over general web search when HN community signal (scores, comments) is important.
Side effects
- No matching stories found for the given query — returns empty list
- query string too vague resulting in low-relevance results
- max_results outside 1–10 range causes validation error
- service unavailable or payment processing failure returns HTTP error
- Hacker News data may be delayed or cached, not fully real-time
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| query | string | Optional focused query. |
| max_results | integer |
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