# Vextorium Hacker News Stories Feed

> Vextorium Hacker News Stories Feed is a paid API for AI agents from api.vextorium.com, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-27).

Returns the current top, new, best, Ask HN, Show HN, or jobs stories from Hacker News with metadata including points, comment count, author, age, and URL.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://api.vextorium.com/hackernews-portada-pago?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-27
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/vextorium-hacker-news-stories-feed-9305e010
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_o4FipqU6BoYdCqDN6FfOm

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 vextorium-hacker-news-stories-feed-9305e010 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What are the top 20 stories on Hacker News right now? Give me the titles, point counts, comment counts, and links.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a real-time snapshot of what the Hacker News community is actively reading and discussing, especially when you want ranked stories with social signals (points, comments) across multiple feed types (top, new, best, Ask HN, Show HN, jobs) in a single structured call. Prefer this over scraping HN directly or using the raw HN Firebase API when you want pre-processed, normalized story metadata without parsing overhead.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid lista enum value causes request failure — must be one of: top, nuevas, mejores, ask, show, empleos
- Hacker News API upstream outage may return empty or error response
- Very high limite values may time out or return partial results
- Missing required body fields (lista or bodyType) results in validation error

## How this service works

What's being read on Hacker News now: top, new, best, Ask HN, Show HN or jobs stories with points, comments, author, age and link. A pulse of tech, AI and startups.

## Output

Returns a structured list of Hacker News stories for the requested feed type, each containing: story rank, title, external URL, discussion URL (HN thread), author username, points/upvotes, comment count, and age in hours. Also includes the list type label and source name.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "lista": {
   "enum": [
    "top",
    "nuevas",
    "mejores",
    "ask",
    "show",
    "empleos"
   ],
   "type": "string"
  },
  "limite": {
   "type": "integer"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/vextorium-hacker-news-stories-feed-9305e010/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.vextorium.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.vextorium.com/llms.txt)