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Hacker News Top Stories Feed
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Hacker News Top Stories Feed is a paid API for AI agents from x402-seller-0ay3.onrender.com, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).
Returns the current top N Hacker News stories with title, URL, score, author, and comment count
Price / call$0.005
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Current top N Hacker News stories (title, url, score, author, comment count) — tech/startup news ranking. Optional parameter: ?limit=<n> (1-50, default 20).
Output
A JSON object containing a count of stories returned, the source URL (Hacker News Firebase API), a fetch timestamp, and an array of story objects each with fields: id, title, url, score, author (by), and comments count.
Example use cases
Morning tech briefing digest
“Pull the top 20 Hacker News stories this morning so I can skim the titles and scores before my standup.”
Startup trend monitoring
“What are the 5 highest-scoring Hacker News posts right now? I want to see what topics the startup community is buzzing about today.”
Developer community pulse check
“Grab the top 15 Hacker News stories for me — I need the titles, URLs, and comment counts to see what's getting the most discussion in the dev world right now.”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://x402-seller-0ay3.onrender.com/api/hn/topWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when you need a real-time snapshot of the current Hacker News front page with structured data (scores, authors, comment counts) rather than scraping HN yourself. Prefer this over generic web scrapers for HN because it returns clean, pre-parsed JSON with all relevant fields. Best for monitoring, digest generation, or any agent workflow that needs to react to trending tech/startup content without maintaining its own HN poller.
Side effects
- limit parameter out of range (not 1-50) may return an error or be clamped
- Hacker News Firebase API unavailability causes upstream fetch failure
- Cold start latency on Render free tier may cause timeout on first request
- Payment failure (x402) blocks the request before it reaches the API logic
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| inputrequired | object | |
| output | object |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"count": 20,
"source": "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com",
"stories": [
{
"by": "someuser",
"id": 123456,
"url": "https://example.com",
"score": 250,
"title": "Show HN: ...",
"comments": 80
}
],
"fetched_at": "2026-09-01T12:00:00.000Z"
}
}Tags
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