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Hacker News Search via Algolia
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Hacker News Search via Algolia is a paid API for AI agents from api.24klabs.ai, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).
Search Hacker News stories and comments by query, sorted by relevance or date using the Algolia HN search index.
Price / call$0.002
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How this service works
Search Hacker News stories and comments by query, sorted by relevance or date (Algolia HN).
Output
Returns a list of matching Hacker News items (stories and/or comments) including titles, text snippets, author usernames, submission timestamps, upvote scores, and direct HN URLs, ordered by the specified sort criterion (relevance or date).
Example use cases
Tech sentiment research on a startup
“Search Hacker News for any stories or comments mentioning 'Notion AI' sorted by relevance so I can see what the dev community thinks of it.”
Latest HN discussion on a framework
“Find the most recent Hacker News posts about 'htmx' sorted by date — I want to see what people have been saying about it lately.”
Competitor mention monitoring
“Search Hacker News for stories and comments about 'Linear' sorted by relevance so I can understand how developers talk about this project management tool.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://api.24klabs.ai/api/v1/hn-searchWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need to search the Hacker News corpus specifically — covering tech-focused community discussions, stories, and comments — rather than general web search. It's ideal for gauging developer sentiment, finding technical debates, or discovering HN threads on a topic. Prefer it over generic search APIs when the Hacker News community perspective is specifically needed.
Side effects
- Empty results if query is too specific or niche with no HN coverage
- Rate limiting or upstream Algolia API unavailability returning an error
- Malformed or missing query parameter causing a validation error
- Sort parameter with unsupported value returning an error
- Stale results if Algolia index hasn't indexed very recent posts yet
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| tags | string | |
| query | string |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"hits": []
}
}Tags
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