# Hacker News Search via scout.hugen.tokyo

> 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.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://scout.hugen.tokyo/scout/hn
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/scout-hugen-tokyo-44a677d2
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_XX0nm18prV4mGUFSS1gqT

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 scout-hugen-tokyo-44a677d2
```

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.

## When to prefer this

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.

## Known failure modes

- 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

## 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 request

```json
{
 "method": "GET"
}
```

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "required": [
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json"
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/scout-hugen-tokyo-44a677d2/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from scout.hugen.tokyo](https://www.zero.xyz/host/scout.hugen.tokyo/llms.txt)