Hacker News Top Stories Feed

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Hacker News Top Stories Feed is a paid API for AI agents from hackernews-x402.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status down (last checked 2026-10-12, last successful call 2026-06-29).

Returns the current top-ranked Hacker News stories with title, URL, score, author, timestamp, and comment count

Price / call$0.002

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How this service works

Hacker News top stories feed. Returns the current top-ranked stories with title, URL, score, author, timestamp, and comment count. Tech industry's premier social news aggregator.

Output

A JSON object containing the feed name ('topstories'), count of stories returned, and an array of story objects each with fields: id, title, url, score, author (by), timestamp (time), story type, and comment count (descendants).

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 engineers are talking about — focus on the ones with the most engagement.”

Monitor trending discussions in your industry

“Show me what's trending on Hacker News today that relates to AI and machine learning — I want to see the titles, scores, and how many people are discussing each one.”

Find breaking tech news for newsletters

“What are the highest-scoring Hacker News posts right now? I need the top ones with their links so I can feature them in our weekly tech digest.”

Technical details

Endpoint

GEThttps://hackernews-x402.vercel.app/hn/top?utm_source=zero.xyz

When to prefer

Choose this endpoint when you need the current top-ranked stories on Hacker News specifically, rather than newest or Ask HN posts. Ideal for surfacing what the tech community is currently upvoting most. Prefer this over the newest stories endpoint when you want quality/popularity signal rather than recency.

Side effects

Exceeds max limit of 30 stories — returns error or truncates
Hacker News API upstream unavailability — service may return 502 or timeout
Invalid query parameter type for limit — may return 400 or default behavior
Payment not provided or insufficient — returns 402 Payment Required

Input

{
  "input": {
    "type": "http",
    "method": "GET",
    "queryParams": {
      "limit": "5"
    }
  }
}

Schema · Request body

Field	Type	Description
inputrequired	object
output	object

Output

{
  "feed": "topstories",
  "count": 5,
  "stories": [
    {
      "by": "rvz",
      "id": 48385906,
      "url": "https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/introducing-gemma-4-12b/",
      "time": "2026-06-03T16:04:42.000Z",
      "type": "story",
      "score": 350,
      "title": "Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model",
      "descendants": 127
    },
    {
      "by": "jmsflknr",
      "id": 48387144,
      "url": "https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic#bot-vs-human",
      "time": "2026-06-03T17:43:00.000Z",
      "type": "story",
      "score": 74,
      "title": "Bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time",
      "descendants": 28
    },
    {
      "by": "Tomte",
      "id": 48384355,
      "url": "https://burntsushi.net/encephalitis/",
      "time": "2026-06-03T14:10:06.000Z",
      "type": "story",
      "score": 129,
      "title": "I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis",
      "descendants": 25
    },
    {
      "by": "volemo",
      "id": 48385965,
      "url": "https://www.espressif.com/en/products/socs/esp32-s31",
      "time": "2026-06-03T16:10:25.000Z",
      "type": "story",
      "score": 144,
      "title": "ESP32-S31",
      "descendants": 69
    },
    {
      "by": "pentagrama",
      "id": 48384482,
      "url": "https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/whatsnew",
      "time": "2026-06-03T14:18:39.000Z",
      "type": "story",
      "score": 232,
      "title": "DaVinci Resolve 21",
      "descendants": 126
    }
  ]
}

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How this service works

Hacker News top stories feed. Returns the current top-ranked stories with title, URL, score, author, timestamp, and comment count. Tech industry's premier social news aggregator.

Output

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 engineers are talking about — focus on the ones with the most engagement.”

Monitor trending discussions in your industry

“Show me what's trending on Hacker News today that relates to AI and machine learning — I want to see the titles, scores, and how many people are discussing each one.”

Find breaking tech news for newsletters

“What are the highest-scoring Hacker News posts right now? I need the top ones with their links so I can feature them in our weekly tech digest.”

Technical details

Endpoint

GEThttps://hackernews-x402.vercel.app/hn/top?utm_source=zero.xyz

When to prefer

Side effects

Exceeds max limit of 30 stories — returns error or truncates
Hacker News API upstream unavailability — service may return 502 or timeout
Invalid query parameter type for limit — may return 400 or default behavior
Payment not provided or insufficient — returns 402 Payment Required

Input

{
  "input": {
    "type": "http",
    "method": "GET",
    "queryParams": {
      "limit": "5"
    }
  }
}

Schema · Request body

Field	Type	Description
inputrequired	object
output	object

Output

{
  "feed": "topstories",
  "count": 5,
  "stories": [
    {
      "by": "rvz",
      "id": 48385906,
      "url": "https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/developers-tools/introducing-gemma-4-12b/",
      "time": "2026-06-03T16:04:42.000Z",
      "type": "story",
      "score": 350,
      "title": "Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model",
      "descendants": 127
    },
    {
      "by": "jmsflknr",
      "id": 48387144,
      "url": "https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic#bot-vs-human",
      "time": "2026-06-03T17:43:00.000Z",
      "type": "story",
      "score": 74,
      "title": "Bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time",
      "descendants": 28
    },
    {
      "by": "Tomte",
      "id": 48384355,
      "url": "https://burntsushi.net/encephalitis/",
      "time": "2026-06-03T14:10:06.000Z",
      "type": "story",
      "score": 129,
      "title": "I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis",
      "descendants": 25
    },
    {
      "by": "volemo",
      "id": 48385965,
      "url": "https://www.espressif.com/en/products/socs/esp32-s31",
      "time": "2026-06-03T16:10:25.000Z",
      "type": "story",
      "score": 144,
      "title": "ESP32-S31",
      "descendants": 69
    },
    {
      "by": "pentagrama",
      "id": 48384482,
      "url": "https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/whatsnew",
      "time": "2026-06-03T14:18:39.000Z",
      "type": "story",
      "score": 232,
      "title": "DaVinci Resolve 21",
      "descendants": 126
    }
  ]
}