Tech news API
Tech news API: the current Hacker News front page — 30 ranked stories as normalized JSON: rank, story id, title, outbound article URL (or HN discussion link for self-posts), points, author, comment count, ISO 8601 time. Single upstream call via the official Algolia HN API. Use for tech trend detection, topic monitoring, news agents, and content-pipeline seeding. Cached up to 2 minutes.
Answeringour last check, 2026-09-24
1 of 1checks answered this week
14 msmedian answer time
$0.005listed price per call
$0.005price it asked us
Paid test badge: not yet. The checks above are free: we call the tool without paying and read the payment request it sends back. The Verified badge needs paid calls whose answers match the promised output, and nobody can buy a badge.
Endpoint
GET https://gateway.stride20k.com/news/tech-pulse
| Category | Search and research |
|---|---|
| Provider host | gateway.stride20k.com |
| Networks | eip155:8453 |
| Payment schemes | exact |
| Self-reported calls, 30 days | 2 from 2 payers (the provider's figure, not ours) |
Our checks, last 30 days
| Day | Result | HTTP | Asked | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-24 | valid payment request | 402 | $0.005 | 14 ms |
Example input (from the provider)
{
"method": "GET",
"queryParams": {},
"type": "http"
}
Promised output schema (from the provider)
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"input": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"method": {
"enum": [
"GET"
],
"type": "string"
},
"queryParams": {
"properties": {},
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"const": "http",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"method"
],
"type": "object"
},
"output": {
"properties": {
"example": {
"properties": {
"data": {
"properties": {
"count": {
"description": "Number of stories returned (\u226430).",
"type": "integer"
},
"stories": {
"description": "Ranked stories: { rank, id, title, url, isSelfPost, points, author, commentCount, submittedAt }.",
"minItems": 1,
"type": "array"
}
},
"required": [
"count",
"stories"
],
"type": "object"
},
"endpoint": {
"description": "Always \"/news/tech-pulse\".",
"type": "string"
},
"meta": {
"properties": {
"attribution": {
"description": "Licensing attribution when the source requires it.",
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"cached": {
"description": "Whether this response was served from cache.",
"type": "boolean"
},
"fetchedAt": {
"description": "ISO 8601 time the data was actually retrieved from the upstream.",
"type": "string"
},
"source": {
"description": "Upstream source: Hacker News (Algolia search API).",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"source",
"cached",
"fetchedAt"
],
"type": "object"
},
"ok": {
"description": "true on success.",
"type": "boolean"
}
},
"required": [
"ok",
"endpoint",
"data",
"meta"
],
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type"
],
"type": "object"
}
},
"required": [
"input"
],
"type": "object"
}