# TheBotWire HN Latest

> TheBotWire HN Latest is a paid API for AI agents from thebotwire.com, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Fetches Hacker News front page, Show HN launches, and rising stories with optional keyword search and points thresholds

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://thebotwire.com/hn/latest
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/thebotwire-hn-latest-c58d3dd8
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_rPWHgJ96gd_EbvgDEVUq6

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 thebotwire-hn-latest-c58d3dd8
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest rising Hacker News stories from the past 2 hours — up to 20 results — and flag anything related to AI or large language models.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need structured, filterable access to Hacker News content — especially when you want to separate front page, Show HN, or rising feeds, or search within a freshness window. Prefer it over raw HN scraping or the official Firebase API when you need pre-filtered, agent-ready story data with points context and feed segmentation.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid feed enum value returns an error (valid values: frontpage, show, rising)
- Limit out of range (must be 1–50) returns a validation error
- Malformed 'since' duration string may return no results or an error
- No stories matching search query returns an empty result set
- HN upstream unavailability may cause delayed or empty responses

## How this service works

Hacker News for AI agents: front page, Show HN launches, and rising stories with points thresholds.

## Output

A list of Hacker News stories matching the requested feed and filters, including story titles, URLs, point scores, and timestamps, capped at the specified limit (default 10, max 50).

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/thebotwire-hn-latest-c58d3dd8/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from thebotwire.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/thebotwire.com/llms.txt)