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Toll402 Hacker News Top Stories
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Toll402 Hacker News Top Stories is a paid API for AI agents from toll402.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).
Returns the top N Hacker News stories (title, URL, and score) by fetching from the official HN Firebase API
Price / call$0.005
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Top N Hacker News stories (title, url, score) via https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json and /v0/item/<id>.json
Output
A list of up to N Hacker News stories, each containing the story title, the original URL, and the current upvote score, sourced live from the HN Firebase API.
Example use cases
Daily tech briefing for developers
“Grab the top 5 Hacker News stories this morning so I can skim what's trending in tech before my standup.”
Newsletter content curation
“Pull the top 15 Hacker News posts right now — I want the titles, URLs, and scores so I can pick the best ones for my weekly newsletter.”
Trending topic monitoring
“What are the top 30 stories on Hacker News at this moment? I want to see titles and scores to spot what topics are getting the most attention today.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://toll402.dev/v1/t/hn_topWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when you need a quick, live snapshot of what's currently trending on Hacker News without managing Firebase API calls yourself. It abstracts the two-step HN API pattern (top story IDs + individual item fetches) into a single call. Prefer it over scraping HN directly or maintaining your own Firebase client when you need titles, URLs, and scores in a clean structured response with a pay-per-call model.
Side effects
- n out of range (must be integer 1–30) — request rejected with validation error
- HN Firebase API unavailable — upstream timeout or empty response
- n not provided — required field missing causes schema validation failure
- Network timeout reaching hacker-news.firebaseio.com — partial or no results returned
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| inputrequired | object | |
| output | object |
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