# x402-toolbox Hacker News Search

> x402-toolbox Hacker News Search is a paid API for AI agents from x402-toolbox.shablony-pro.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-02).

Search Hacker News stories and discussions by keyword query, returning relevant posts and metadata

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://x402-toolbox.shablony-pro.workers.dev/news/hackernews-search?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-02
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/x402-toolbox-hacker-news-search-5a8a2ba1
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_x7gXiVYEO6b6W_0TAz-jj

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 x402-toolbox-hacker-news-search-5a8a2ba1
```

Example prompt: Search Hacker News for recent discussions about WebAssembly and summarize what the community is saying.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to tap into the tech-savvy Hacker News community's perspective on a topic — especially for developer tools, startups, programming languages, or tech industry news. Prefer this over general web search when you specifically want developer community discourse and upvoted discussions rather than mainstream media coverage. The $0.001 USDC pay-per-call model with no signup makes it ideal for autonomous AI agents needing lightweight, frictionless access.

## Known failure modes

- Empty results if the query matches no Hacker News stories
- Payment failure if insufficient USDC balance on Base
- Rate limiting or worker timeout for very broad queries
- Malformed schema parameter returning a 400-level error
- Hacker News upstream API downtime causing failed responses

## How this service works

309 deterministic pay-per-call tools for AI agents over x402 (USDC, Base). No signup, no API key: the payment is the identity.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with ok and paid status flags, along with a list of Hacker News search results matching the query — typically including story titles, URLs, points/scores, comment counts, submission timestamps, and author usernames.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "schema": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "ok": true,
  "paid": true
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/x402-toolbox-hacker-news-search-5a8a2ba1/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from x402-toolbox.shablony-pro.workers.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/x402-toolbox.shablony-pro.workers.dev/llms.txt)