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Hacker News Search: Web Search Quality & Retrieval
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Hacker News Search: Web Search Quality & Retrieval is a paid API for AI agents from market.datapackvibe.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-21).
Searches public Hacker News stories specifically about web search quality and retrieval, returning story links, scores, comments, authors, and dates.
Price / call$0.01
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StatusUnknown
How this service works
Hacker News search: web search quality and retrieval: Search public Hacker News stories about web search quality and retrieval. Returns story links, scores, comments, authors, and dates.
Output
Returns a list of Hacker News stories matching the query, each including the story title, URL, upvote score, number of comments, author username, and publication date — up to the requested number of results (max 10).
Example use cases
Track HN sentiment on search engines
“Search Hacker News for the top 10 stories about web search quality — I want to see what developers and researchers are saying about modern search engines right now.”
Research retrieval techniques for RAG pipeline
“Find me up to 5 recent Hacker News stories discussing information retrieval and search relevance — I'm researching techniques for improving my RAG pipeline.”
Monitor search ranking algorithm discourse
“Pull the latest Hacker News posts about search ranking and retrieval quality, up to 8 results, so I can track what the tech community thinks about recent changes to major search engines.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://market.datapackvibe.com/x402/pulse-hn-web-search-quality-agent-builders?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you specifically need Hacker News community perspectives on web search quality and retrieval — it is pre-scoped to that topic, making it more targeted than a general HN search API. Prefer it when you want curated tech-community discourse (scores, comments, authors) rather than raw web search results or academic papers.
Side effects
- Query returns zero results if no matching HN stories exist for the given terms
- max_results outside 1–10 range rejected with validation error
- Service unavailable if upstream Hacker News API or datapackvibe.com is down
- Payment failure if USDC balance is insufficient for the $0.01 per-call fee
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| query | string | Optional focused query. |
| max_results | integer |
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