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Scout DX – Hacker News Scout
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Scout DX – Hacker News Scout is a paid API for AI agents from scout-dx.hugen.tokyo, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).
Returns scouted data and insights for Hacker News (HN) related queries via a paid x402 endpoint.
Price / call$0.01
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Returns scout data for HN-related queries.
Output
Returns scouted Hacker News data including relevant posts, threads, discussions, and community signals matching the query. Delivered as structured scout data via the x402-paid endpoint.
Example use cases
Monitor competitor product launches
“Keep an eye on Hacker News for any discussions about our competitors' new releases and let me know what the developer community is saying about them.”
Track emerging technology adoption
“Scout Hacker News for conversations about WebAssembly and summarize what tools or frameworks developers are actually using in production.”
Research investor sentiment signals
“Find all recent Hacker News threads mentioning our startup's funding round or competitors in our space, and tell me what the community's reaction has been.”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://scout-dx.hugen.tokyo/scout/hnWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when you need programmatic access to Hacker News community discussions, signals, or posts for a given topic, and you are operating in an x402-compatible payment environment on Base or Solana. Prefer this over general web search when HN community sentiment or developer discourse is specifically desired.
Side effects
- Payment not provided or invalid x402 header — 402 Payment Required
- No matching HN content found for query — empty or null results
- Query parameter missing — 400 Bad Request
- Network or upstream HN data unavailability — 503 or timeout
Input
{
"q": "artificial intelligence",
"sort": "relevance",
"per_page": 10
}Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| qrequired | string | Search query string |
| tag | string | Filter by content type |
| sort | string | Sort order: relevance (default) or chronological |
| per_page | integer | Number of results to return (1-50) |
Output
{
"data": [
{
"id": "21530860",
"url": "https://www.facebook.com/100006735798590/posts/2547632585471243/",
"date": "2019-11-13T23:17:23Z",
"type": "story",
"title": "John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general intelligence",
"author": "jbredeche",
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21530860",
"points": 1574,
"comments": 889
},
{
"id": "21953593",
"url": "https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-artificial-intelligence/u-s-government-limits-exports-of-artificial-intelligence-software-idUSKBN1Z21PT",
"date": "2020-01-04T08:02:49Z",
"type": "story",
"title": "U.S. government limits exports of artificial intelligence software",
"author": "ckcheng",
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21953593",
"points": 595,
"comments": 211
},
{
"id": "41295923",
"url": "https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/08/19/artificial-intelligence-is-losing-hype",
"date": "2024-08-20T01:13:23Z",
"type": "story",
"title": "Artificial intelligence is losing hype",
"author": "bx376",
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41295923",
"points": 568,
"comments": 780
},
{
"id": "18219444",
"url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/mit-college-artificial-intelligence.html",
"date": "2018-10-15T13:26:14Z",
"type": "story",
"title": "M.I.T. Plans College for Artificial Intelligence, Backed by $1B",
"author": "superfx",
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18219444",
"points": 560,
"comments": 164
},
{
"id": "12667761",
"url": "https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-034-artificial-intelligence-fall-2010/lecture-videos/",
"date": "2016-10-08T17:27:17Z",
"type": "story",
"title": "Artificial Intelligence Lecture Videos",
"author": "BucketSort",
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12667761",
"points": 540,
"comments": 49
},
{
"id": "17040368",
"url": "https://www.cs.cmu.edu/news/carnegie-mellon-launches-undergraduate-degree-artificial-intelligence",
"date": "2018-05-10T16:28:03Z",
"type": "story",
"title": "Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artificial Intelligence",
"author": "e15ctr0n",
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17040368",
"points": 502,
"comments": 339
},
{
"id": "28394834",
"url": "https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n1872",
"date": "2021-09-02T17:26:09Z",
"type": "story",
"title": "Use of artificial intelligence for image analysis in breast cancer screening",
"author": "cratermoon",
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28394834",
"points": 439,
"comments": 323
},
{
"id": "9386004",
"url": "http://acuman.us/",
"date": "2015-04-16T05:21:03Z",
"type": "story",
"title": "Show HN: I'm a 14 year-old dev who has programmed an artificial intelligence bot",
"author": "seanlevan",
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9386004",
"points": 430,
"comments": 297
},
{
"id": "15155609",
"url": "https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/119VW6ueBGLQXsw-jGMboGP2-WuOnyMAOYLgd44SL6xM/edit#slide=id.p",
"date": "2017-09-02T12:24:35Z",
"type": "story",
"title": "Where will artificial general intelligence come from?",
"author": "nshr",
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15155609",
"points": 389,
"comments": 240
},
{
"id": "34637650",
"url": "https://dallasinnovates.com/exclusive-qa-john-carmacks-different-path-to-artificial-general-intelligence/",
"date": "2023-02-03T06:01:47Z",
"type": "story",
"title": "John Carmack’s ‘Different Path’ to Artificial General Intelligence",
"author": "cmdr2",
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34637650",
"points": 378,
"comments": 492
}
],
"count": 10,
"query": "artificial intelligence",
"source": "hackernews",
"success": true,
"elapsed_ms": 501
}Schema · Response
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| datarequired | array | |
| countrequired | number | |
| queryrequired | string | |
| sourcerequired | string | |
| successrequired | boolean | |
| elapsed_msrequired | number |
Tags
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