Hacker News Top Stories via x402

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Hacker News Top Stories via x402 is a paid API for AI agents from x402.onchainexpat.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-11, last successful call 2026-05-01).

Returns the current top stories from Hacker News, including title, score, author, URL, and comment count

Price / call$0.01

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Success50%

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How this service works

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Output

Returns a ranked list of top Hacker News stories, each with title, author (by), story URL, Hacker News item URL, score, comment count, story ID, and Unix timestamp. Also includes metadata about the request type, count returned, and whether results were cached.

Example use cases

Example prompt

“What are the top stories on Hacker News right now? Fetch me the current front page with titles, scores, and links.”

Technical details

Endpoint

POSThttps://x402.onchainexpat.com/api/x402-tools/hackernews/top?utm_source=zero.xyz

When to prefer

Use this endpoint when you need live or near-live Hacker News front-page data with structured fields (score, comments, author, URLs) inside an x402 micropayment-gated workflow. Prefer this over scraping HN directly when you need a clean JSON response with per-story metadata already parsed.

Side effects

Invalid or missing Ethereum address returns an error
Upstream Hacker News API unavailability may cause failures or stale data
Payment failure (insufficient USDC balance) blocks the request
Malformed chain identifier may cause request rejection

Input

{
  "chain": "ethereum",
  "address": "0x1234567890123456789012345678901234567890"
}

Schema · Request body

Field	Type	Description
limit	integer	Number of top stories to return (default 10, max 30)

Output

{
  "type": "top",
  "count": 10,
  "cached": false,
  "stories": [
    {
      "by": "Dylan1312",
      "id": 48511072,
      "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access",
      "time": 1781311890,
      "score": 1393,
      "title": "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5",
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48511072",
      "comments_count": 933
    },
    {
      "by": "vednig",
      "id": 48511908,
      "url": "https://opensourceaimustwin.com/?share=v2",
      "time": 1781316864,
      "score": 399,
      "title": "Open source AI must win",
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48511908",
      "comments_count": 118
    },
    {
      "by": "jesse_dot_id",
      "id": 48511121,
      "url": "https://status.claude.com/incidents/s9w82lp9dcn9",
      "time": 1781312286,
      "score": 201,
      "title": "We've suspended access to Claude Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5",
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48511121",
      "comments_count": 84
    },
    {
      "by": "bestouff",
      "id": 48510010,
      "url": "https://www.renaultgroup.com/en/magazine/energy-and-powertrains/all-about-electric-motors-with-no-rare-earths/",
      "time": 1781302083,
      "score": 295,
      "title": "Renault: Electric motors with no rare earths",
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510010",
      "comments_count": 74
    },
    {
      "by": "gmays",
      "id": 48505231,
      "url": "https://innovativegenomics.org/news/crispr-technique-selectively-shreds-cancer-cells/",
      "time": 1781277324,
      "score": 743,
      "title": "CRISPR tech selectively shreds cancer cells, including \"undruggable\" cancers",
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48505231",
      "comments_count": 185
    },
    {
      "by": "ellg",
      "id": 48510341,
      "url": "https://putt.day/",
      "time": 1781304966,
      "score": 105,
      "title": "Show HN: Putt.day a daily mini golf game",
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510341",
      "comments_count": 59
    },
    {
      "by": "redbell",
      "id": 48510046,
      "url": "https://depthfirst.com/research/21-zero-days-in-ffmpeg",
      "time": 1781302409,
      "score": 141,
      "title": "Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg",
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510046",
      "comments_count": 74
    },
    {
      "by": "DASD",
      "id": 48508726,
      "url": "https://www.swift.org/blog/migrating-truetype-hinting-to-swift/",
      "time": 1781294067,
      "score": 170,
      "title": "Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter",
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48508726",
      "comments_count": 67
    },
    {
      "by": "kkm",
      "id": 48507020,
      "url": "https://ikyle.me/blog/2026/how-to-setup-a-local-coding-agent-on-macos",
      "time": 1781285695,
      "score": 303,
      "title": "How to setup a local coding agent on macOS",
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507020",
      "comments_count": 77
    },
    {
      "by": "marc__1",
      "id": 48495928,
      "url": "https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/2064661778978533571",
      "time": 1781209458,
      "score": 338,
      "title": "Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware",
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48495928",
      "comments_count": 198
    }
  ]
}

Schema · Response

Field	Type	Description
cached	boolean
stories	array

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