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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 store.agentexchange.work, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).
Returns the current top stories from Hacker News including titles, URLs, and scores
Price / call$0.001
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Current Hacker News top stories with score, author, comment count, and links. For tech-trend, sentiment, and news-monitoring agents. Live from the Hacker News API.
Output
A JSON object with a count field and a stories array, each story containing a title, URL, and upvote score. Returns up to 20 stories sorted by HN ranking.
Example use cases
Daily tech briefing for engineering teams
“Pull the top Hacker News stories this morning and give me a quick summary of what developers are talking about — focus on anything related to AI, infrastructure, or security.”
Real-time trend monitoring for startup founders
“Check what's hot on Hacker News right now and flag any stories about our competitors or adjacent markets — I want to know what the tech community is excited about today.”
Content curation for tech newsletter
“Grab the top 20 Hacker News stories from the past few hours and rank them by score — I need the best ones for tomorrow's newsletter so I can pick the most relevant pieces.”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://store.agentexchange.work/hn/topWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when you need real-time top Hacker News stories without setting up API keys or signing up for a service. Ideal for AI agents that want pay-per-call access to HN trending content via USDC micropayments on Base. Prefer over direct HN API calls when working within an x402-enabled agent payment flow.
Side effects
- Payment required (402) if x402 USDC payment header is missing or invalid
- top parameter out of range (must be 1-20) may return validation error
- Upstream HN API unavailability could cause timeout or empty results
- Requesting more than 20 stories returns an error or is clamped to max
Input
{
"input": {
"type": "http",
"method": "GET",
"queryParams": {
"top": 10
}
}
}Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| inputrequired | object | |
| output | object |
Output
{
"count": 10,
"source": "Hacker News API",
"stories": [
{
"by": "regnerba",
"id": 48571081,
"url": "https://lore.org/",
"score": 826,
"title": "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability",
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571081",
"comments": 455
},
{
"by": "Usu",
"id": 48576824,
"url": "https://openrouter.ai/blog/insights/royale-last-agent-standing/",
"score": 38,
"title": "A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok?",
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576824",
"comments": 23
},
{
"by": "giuliomagnifico",
"id": 48565498,
"url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-holds-off-blacklisting-chinas-deepseek-more-than-100-firms-deemed-security-2026-06-17/",
"score": 239,
"title": "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks",
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48565498",
"comments": 245
},
{
"by": "gregpr07",
"id": 48556561,
"url": "https://browser-use.com/posts/firecracker-browser-infra",
"score": 144,
"title": "How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s",
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48556561",
"comments": 93
},
{
"by": "himata4113",
"id": 48567759,
"url": "https://artificialanalysis.ai/articles/glm-5-2-is-the-new-leading-open-weights-model-on-the-artificial-analysis-intelligence-index",
"score": 714,
"title": "GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis",
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567759",
"comments": 361
},
{
"by": "zachdive",
"id": 48572553,
"url": "https://github.com/Adam-CAD/CADAM",
"score": 118,
"title": "Launch HN: Adam (YC W25) – Open-Source AI CAD",
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48572553",
"comments": 59
},
{
"by": "brownrout",
"id": 48573012,
"url": "https://ribbie.tv/watch",
"score": 166,
"title": "Show HN: An 8-bit live gamecast for baseball",
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48573012",
"comments": 99
},
{
"by": "presspot",
"id": 48568058,
"url": "https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/americas-compact-between-science-and-politics-is-broken/",
"score": 519,
"title": "U.S. science is in chaos",
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48568058",
"comments": 579
},
{
"by": "susiecambria",
"id": 48577374,
"url": "https://storiedcolors.com/",
"score": 3,
"title": "Storied Colors – a catalogue of named colors",
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577374",
"comments": 0
},
{
"by": "matt_d",
"id": 48551069,
"url": "https://www.sigarch.org/the-return-of-rigorous-full-system-timing-simulation/",
"score": 13,
"title": "The Return of Rigorous Full-System Timing Simulation",
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48551069",
"comments": 0
}
],
"served_at": 1781732964149
}Tags
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