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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 news.memoryapi.org, paid per call via x402, $0.001/call, status down (last checked 2026-09-15).
Fetches the current top stories from Hacker News, including titles, URLs, scores, authors, and comment counts.
Price / call$0.001
Success—
StatusDown
How this service works
AgentNews — Hacker News + Guardian news API with x402 micropayments. $0.001 USDC per request.
Output
A list of top Hacker News stories, each containing the story title, source URL, upvote score, submitting author username, and comment count.
Example use cases
Daily tech digest for engineering team
“Grab the top 10 stories from Hacker News right now and give me a quick summary with scores and comment counts so I can share with the team in our morning standup.”
Monitor trending developer community topics
“What's getting the most attention on Hacker News today? Pull the stories with the highest scores and show me which ones have the most discussion in the comments.”
Find popular resources for AI research
“Search Hacker News for trending stories and give me the top ones about AI development. Include the titles, who posted them, and how many people are discussing each one.”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://news.memoryapi.org/x402/news/topWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when you need structured, machine-readable access to the current Hacker News front page including scores, authors, and comment counts — ideal for building news digests, trend monitoring, or surfacing developer-community buzz without scraping HN directly.
Side effects
- Hacker News API unavailable upstream — service may return 503 or empty results
- Payment not processed correctly — 402 payment required error
- Rate limiting if called too frequently — returns 429
- Stale data if cache is not refreshed — stories may not reflect the very latest front page
Input
{
"q": "artificial intelligence",
"limit": 10,
"section": "technology"
}Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| input | — |
Output
{
"type": "top",
"count": 10,
"source": "Hacker News",
"stories": [
{
"by": "takakaze",
"id": 48331786,
"url": "https://www.nippon.com/en/japan-data/h02783/",
"type": "story",
"score": 43,
"title": "Naphtha Shortages Having a Growing Impact in Japan",
"descendants": 14,
"time_posted": "2026-05-30T02:20:40.000Z"
},
{
"by": "WillDaSilva",
"id": 48324712,
"url": "https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory",
"type": "story",
"score": 806,
"title": "The dead economy theory",
"descendants": 985,
"time_posted": "2026-05-29T15:46:24.000Z"
},
{
"by": "tomasol",
"id": 48326802,
"url": "https://obeli.sk/blog/sqlite-is-all-you-need-for-durable-workflows/",
"type": "story",
"score": 430,
"title": "SQLite is all you need for durable workflows",
"descendants": 218,
"time_posted": "2026-05-29T17:54:50.000Z"
},
{
"by": "GaggiX",
"id": 48284494,
"url": "https://blog.chrislewis.au/snowboard-kids-2-is-100-decompiled/",
"type": "story",
"score": 114,
"title": "Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled",
"descendants": 32,
"time_posted": "2026-05-26T19:12:59.000Z"
},
{
"by": "0x1997",
"id": 48332151,
"url": "https://www.perryts.com/",
"type": "story",
"score": 17,
"title": "Perry Compiles TypeScript directly to executables using SWC and LLVM",
"descendants": 9,
"time_posted": "2026-05-30T03:14:25.000Z"
},
{
"by": "georgewsinger",
"id": 48293119,
"url": "https://github.com/HarleyCoops/Math-To-Manim",
"type": "story",
"score": 14,
"title": "Math-to-Manim",
"descendants": 1,
"time_posted": "2026-05-27T12:18:19.000Z"
},
{
"by": "vnglst",
"id": 48325340,
"url": "https://koenvangilst.nl/lab/mistral-ai-now-summit",
"type": "story",
"score": 324,
"title": "Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit",
"descendants": 115,
"time_posted": "2026-05-29T16:22:01.000Z"
},
{
"by": "nadis",
"id": 48330436,
"url": "https://www.quandri.io/engineering-blog/mcp-is-dead",
"type": "story",
"score": 133,
"title": "MCP is dead?",
"descendants": 108,
"time_posted": "2026-05-29T22:56:49.000Z"
},
{
"by": "rented_mule",
"id": 48283410,
"url": "https://blog.prusa3d.com/our-new-open-source-colormix-model-in-prusaslicer-and-easyprint_136079/",
"type": "story",
"score": 111,
"title": "Print with dozens of colors: Our new open-source ColorMix for PrusaSlicer",
"descendants": 15,
"time_posted": "2026-05-26T18:05:42.000Z"
},
{
"by": "evilsimon",
"id": 48327962,
"url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/939765/ai-training-data-startup-shift-free-cleaning",
"type": "story",
"score": 104,
"title": "Shift will clean homes for free to train future robots",
"descendants": 150,
"time_posted": "2026-05-29T19:16:32.000Z"
}
],
"success": true
}Schema · Response
{
"example": {
"type": "top",
"count": 20,
"source": "Hacker News",
"stories": [
{
"by": "user",
"id": 123,
"url": "https://example.com",
"type": "story",
"score": 500,
"title": "Example Story",
"descendants": 42,
"time_posted": "2025-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"
}
],
"success": true
}
}Tags
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