# Hacker News Search: LLM Inference Cost and Performance

> Hacker News Search: LLM Inference Cost and Performance 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 specifically about LLM inference cost and performance, returning story links, scores, comment counts, authors, and dates.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://market.datapackvibe.com/x402/pulse-hn-inference-cost-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-llm-inference-cost-and-performance-08cb7af4
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_rnMqEawYQiJwtcIdPY1VT

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-llm-inference-cost-and-performance-08cb7af4 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search Hacker News for the top 5 stories about LLM inference cost and performance and show me links, scores, and comment counts.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need curated, community-vetted Hacker News discussions specifically about LLM inference cost and performance — ideal for tracking industry sentiment, surfacing popular technical threads, or doing lightweight research on inference economics without scraping HN manually.

## Known failure modes

- No results found if query is too narrow or topic has low HN coverage
- Rate limiting or payment failure if x402 USDC payment is not properly handled
- max_results out of range (must be 1-10) returns validation error
- Network timeout if upstream HN search API is slow or unavailable

## How this service works

Hacker News search: LLM inference cost and performance: Search public Hacker News stories about LLM inference cost and performance. Returns story links, scores, comments, authors, and dates.

## Output

Returns a list of up to 10 Hacker News story objects, each containing the story title, URL, HN score, number of comments, author username, and publication date, filtered to posts relevant to LLM inference cost and performance.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "default": "LLM inference cost and performance Technology buyers",
   "description": "Optional focused query."
  },
  "max_results": {
   "type": "integer",
   "default": 5,
   "maximum": 10,
   "minimum": 1
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/hacker-news-search-llm-inference-cost-and-performance-08cb7af4/health.json
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