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Hacker News Search via scout.hugen.tokyo
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Hacker News Search via scout.hugen.tokyo is a paid API for AI agents from scout.hugen.tokyo, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).
Search Hacker News for tech news, startup funding, and developer discussions, returning ranked stories with metadata.
Price / call$0.01
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Search Hacker News for tech news, startup funding, and developer discussions. AI agent API for market research and trend analysis. Accepts USDC payments on Base and Solana
Output
Returns a list of HN stories matching the query, each with story ID, title, source URL, HN discussion URL, author, upvote points, comment count, post type, and publication date — sorted by the requested sort order.
Example use cases
Example prompt
“Search Hacker News for the top 10 most relevant stories about 'large language models', sorted by relevance, so I can see what the developer community is discussing.”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://scout.hugen.tokyo/scout/hnWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need to gauge developer community sentiment, find tech news stories, or research startup and funding discussions specifically from the Hacker News audience. Prefer this over general web search when you want the curated, upvoted signal of the HN community rather than raw web results.
Side effects
- No results found for obscure or misspelled queries
- Query too broad returns low-relevance results
- Rate limiting or payment failure returns 402 error
- HN API downtime causes upstream failure
- Invalid sort parameter returns error response
Input
{
"method": "GET"
}Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| input | — |
Output
{
"data": [
{
"id": "16582136",
"url": "http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-43396008",
"date": "2018-03-14T03:50:30Z",
"type": "story",
"title": "Stephen Hawking has died",
"author": "Cogito",
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16582136",
"points": 6015,
"comments": 436
},
{
"id": "11116274",
"url": "http://www.apple.com/customer-letter/",
"date": "2016-02-17T08:38:37Z",
"type": "story",
"title": "A Message to Our Customers",
"author": "epaga",
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11116274",
"points": 5771,
"comments": 967
},
{
"id": "38309611",
"url": "https://openai.com/blog/openai-announces-leadership-transition",
"date": "2023-11-17T20:28:50Z",
"type": "story",
"title": "OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman",
"author": "davidbarker",
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38309611",
"points": 5710,
"comments": 2530
},
{
"id": "39865810",
"url": "https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/03/29/4",
"date": "2024-03-29T16:16:50Z",
"type": "story",
"title": "Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise",
"author": "rkta",
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39865810",
"points": 4549,
"comments": 1849
},
{
"id": "41002195",
"url": "https://old.reddit.com/r/crowdstrike/comments/1e6vmkf/bsod_error_in_latest_crowdstrike_update/",
"date": "2024-07-19T05:26:13Z",
"type": "story",
"title": "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops",
"author": "BLKNSLVR",
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002195",
"points": 4489,
"comments": 3859
},
{
"id": "3078128",
"url": "http://www.apple.com/stevejobs/",
"date": "2011-10-05T23:42:23Z",
"type": "story",
"title": "Steve Jobs has passed away.",
"author": "patricktomas",
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3078128",
"points": 4338,
"comments": 363
},
{
"id": "37011324",
"url": "https://groups.google.com/g/vim_announce/c/tWahca9zkt4",
"date": "2023-08-05T12:23:27Z",
"type": "story",
"title": "Bram Moolenaar has died",
"author": "wufocaculura",
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37011324",
"points": 4310,
"comments": 428
},
{
"id": "31261533",
"url": "https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/",
"date": "2022-05-04T15:06:41Z",
"type": "story",
"title": "Mechanical Watch",
"author": "todsacerdoti",
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31261533",
"points": 4298,
"comments": 413
},
{
"id": "24872911",
"url": "https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/10/2020-10-23-RIAA.md",
"date": "2020-10-23T19:26:35Z",
"type": "story",
"title": "YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA",
"author": "phantop",
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24872911",
"points": 4240,
"comments": 1443
},
{
"id": "47340079",
"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated",
"date": "2026-03-11T19:29:29Z",
"type": "story",
"title": "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans",
"author": "usefulposter",
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079",
"points": 4229,
"comments": 1668
}
],
"count": 10,
"query": "",
"source": "hackernews",
"success": true,
"elapsed_ms": 626
}Schema · Response
{
"type": "json"
}Tags
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