Hacker News Search via x402

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Hacker News Search via x402 is a paid API for AI agents from workspace-x402-paywall.onrender.com, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-11).

Search Hacker News stories, comments, and discussions by keyword query, paid per-call via x402 micropayment protocol

Price / call$0.005

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Output

A JSON object containing Hacker News search results matching the query, likely including story titles, URLs, authors, scores, comment counts, and submission dates, sourced from the HN corpus.

Example use cases

Researching community sentiment on a technology

“Search Hacker News for 'LLM fine-tuning' and tell me what the developer community is saying about it lately.”

Tracking startup mentions on HN

“Find recent Hacker News threads that mention 'Mistral AI' — I want to see how people are talking about them.”

Finding HN discussion for a specific open source project

“Look up Hacker News stories about 'Bun runtime' and give me a summary of the top posts and their scores.”

Technical details

Endpoint

GEThttps://workspace-x402-paywall.onrender.com/search/hn?utm_source=zero.xyz

When to prefer

Choose this endpoint when you need programmatic, pay-per-call access to Hacker News search without managing API keys or subscriptions. It is ideal for lightweight, sporadic HN lookups within an agent workflow where micropayment via USDC is feasible. Prefer it over scraping or direct Algolia HN API calls when operating in an x402-enabled environment that already handles crypto payment headers.

Side effects

Missing required 'q' parameter returns an error
Empty or very broad query may return too many low-relevance results
Query returning no results yields an empty hits array
Payment failure (insufficient USDC balance or x402 auth issue) blocks the call
Rate limiting or server unavailability on the Render-hosted service may return 5xx errors

Input

Schema · Request body

Field	Type	Description
properties	string

Output

Schema · Response

{
  "type": "object"
}

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