# 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 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-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-llm-inference-cost-and-performance-c096a8f5
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_y_vZXkDnnlKDoWAeNFBa4

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-c096a8f5 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search Hacker News for the top 5 stories about LLM inference cost and performance — I want to see what the community is saying right now.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you specifically need community-curated Hacker News discussions about LLM inference cost or performance, rather than general web search results or academic sources. It is ideal for gauging developer sentiment, tracking trending topics, and finding practitioner-level commentary on inference pricing and benchmarks.

## Known failure modes

- No matching stories found for the query returns an empty result set
- Exceeding max_results limit of 10 causes validation error
- Hacker News data source temporarily unavailable returns a service error
- Payment failure (insufficient USDC) blocks the request before execution

## 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 Hacker News stories matching the inference cost and performance query, each including the story title, URL, HN score, number of comments, author username, and publication date — up to 10 results.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

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

## More

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