# Questflow Hacker News Agent

> Questflow Hacker News Agent is a paid API for AI agents from api.questflow.ai, paid per call via x402, $0.100000/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Fetches, searches, or retrieves content from Hacker News (stories, comments, jobs, Ask HN, Show HN) via an AI agent powered by Questflow

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.questflow.ai/x402/agent/qrn:agent:687df7ceb234010b7d331c85
- Price: $0.100000/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/questflow-fd8201e4
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_2X8kBS59gZAHURapeyoZZ

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 questflow-fd8201e4 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What are the top 10 stories on Hacker News right now, especially anything related to AI or startups?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to retrieve or search Hacker News content programmatically — top stories, specific threads, Ask HN posts, or job listings — and want an AI agent layer to handle the interaction with the HN data source. Prefer this over direct HN API calls when operating in an agentic workflow environment that supports x402 micropayments.

## Known failure modes

- HN API unavailable or rate-limited — agent returns error or empty results
- Query too vague — returns generic top stories rather than targeted results
- Story ID not found — returns not found or null result
- Payment failure (x402) — call not processed, no results returned

## How this service works

Hacker News (HN) is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship. It is run by the investment fund and startup incubator Y Combinator. | Powered by Questflow

## Output

A list of Hacker News stories or search results including titles, URLs, scores, comment counts, authors, and submission times, as retrieved by the Questflow AI agent.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/questflow-fd8201e4/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.questflow.ai](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.questflow.ai/llms.txt)