# Hacker News Story Status Lookup

> Hacker News Story Status Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from oracles-production.up.railway.app, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Retrieves stored detail for a single Hacker News story by its entity ID (e.g. 'hn:39123456').

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://oracles-production.up.railway.app/v1/hacker-news/status
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/hacker-news-story-status-lookup-72385c9d
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_5-MT14k5ywLuFDqcgoYAP

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-story-status-lookup-72385c9d
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the stored details for Hacker News story hn:39123456 from the oracle?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to retrieve stored details for a specific Hacker News story by its entity ID. It is ideal when you already know the story's entity ID (e.g. 'hn:39123456') and want structured metadata about it, or when you want to list all tracked HN entities by omitting the ID parameter.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or malformed entityId returns an error or empty result
- Story ID not in the tracked set returns no entity data
- Network timeout on the railway.app host
- Payment not accepted (x402 payment required, $0.01 USDC)
- Missing required 'input' wrapper in request body

## How this service works

Stored detail for a single story (entityId like 'hn:39123456').

## Output

Returns a JSON object containing the stored entity detail for the specified Hacker News story, including story metadata and any tracked attributes. If no ID is provided, it returns a list of all tracked entities.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "id": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "entityId to look up; omit to list tracked entities"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "entity": {
       "type": "object"
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/hacker-news-story-status-lookup-72385c9d/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from oracles-production.up.railway.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/oracles-production.up.railway.app/llms.txt)