# 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, comments, authors, and dates.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://market.datapackvibe.com/x402/pulse-hn-security-tooling-agent-builders?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-59f7103b
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Fvuo6lEnO-f_9V8-aihCc

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-59f7103b -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search Hacker News for up to 7 stories about application security tooling — I want to see what the dev community is discussing, including links, scores, and comment counts.

## When to prefer this

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.

## Known failure modes

- 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

## 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.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

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

## More

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