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Vextorium Hacker News Top Stories
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Vextorium Hacker News Top Stories is a paid API for AI agents from api.vextorium.com, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-19).
Fetches top (or other category) Hacker News stories with title, author, points, comments, and URLs
Price / call$0.002
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How this service works
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Output
Returns a JSON object with the list type (e.g. 'top'), source attribution ('Hacker News API (Y Combinator)'), and an array of stories each containing rank, title, URL, author, points, comment count, hours since posting, and a direct link to the HN discussion thread.
Example use cases
Morning tech news briefing
“Give me the top 5 Hacker News stories from this morning so I can catch up on what the dev community is buzzing about.”
Monitoring Ask HN discussions
“Fetch the latest Ask HN posts from Hacker News — I want to see what questions people are asking the community right now.”
Finding Show HN projects
“Pull the top Show HN submissions from Hacker News so I can browse what developers are building and sharing today, limit it to 20 stories.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://api.vextorium.com/v1/hackernews-top?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need structured, ranked Hacker News story data including points, comment counts, and discussion links without scraping HN yourself. It supports multiple list types (top, new, best, ask, show, jobs) and returns clean JSON. Prefer it over direct HN API calls when using x402 pay-per-call infrastructure and needing a ready-to-use normalized response.
Side effects
- Invalid list enum value (must be one of: top, nuevas, mejores, ask, show, empleos) returns a 400 error
- Hacker News API upstream outage causes failure or empty results
- Limit parameter exceeding available stories may return fewer results than requested
- Payment failure or insufficient USDC balance returns a 402 error
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| list | string | |
| limit | integer |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"list": "top",
"source": "Hacker News API (Y Combinator)",
"stories": [
{
"url": "https://yuka.dev/blog-2026-10-02-linux-m4.html",
"rank": 1,
"title": "The Forgetful CPU (Linux on M4)",
"author": "signa11",
"points": 89,
"comments": 15,
"hours_ago": 10.9,
"discussion": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49933869"
},
{
"url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/court-agrees-eff-utahs-vpn-law-demands-technical-impossibility",
"rank": 2,
"title": "Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility",
"author": "hn_acker",
"points": 493,
"comments": 221,
"hours_ago": 26.9,
"discussion": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49927754"
}
]
}
}Tags
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