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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 2026-10-20).
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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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 URL, title, score (upvotes), comment count, author username, and publication date — up to the requested max_results count.
Example use cases
Tracking search algorithm discourse on HN
“Find the 10 most relevant Hacker News stories about search ranking quality and retrieval so I can see what the tech community is saying about it right now.”
Researching information retrieval trends
“Search Hacker News for recent posts about information retrieval and return the top 5 results with their scores and authors — I'm putting together a reading list on the topic.”
Competitive search technology intelligence
“Pull up to 8 Hacker News stories about web search quality improvements and new retrieval techniques — I want to see what's getting the most community traction.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://market.datapackvibe.com/x402/pulse-hn-web-search-quality-buyers?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you specifically need Hacker News community perspectives on web search quality and retrieval topics — it's ideal for surfacing developer and tech-insider discourse, trending discussions, and community-scored stories on search technology. Prefer it over general web search when you want the HN community's signal (upvotes, comments) rather than broad web coverage.
Side effects
- No results found for highly specific or obscure queries
- Query timeout if Hacker News search backend is slow
- Invalid max_results value outside 1–10 range returns validation error
- Payment failure if USDC balance is insufficient
- Stale results if HN indexing is delayed
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| query | string | Optional focused query. |
| max_results | integer |
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