Hacker News stories
Hacker News stories: front-page lists (top, new, best, ask, show) or full-text search, each with title, URL, domain, points, comment count, author, time, HN link and text excerpt.
Answeringour last check, 2026-10-25
1 of 1checks answered this week
988 msmedian answer time
$0.002listed price per call
$0.002price 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://hn.genexxis.com/hackernews
| Category | Search and research |
|---|---|
| Provider host | hn.genexxis.com |
| Networks | eip155:8453 |
| Payment schemes | exact |
| Self-reported calls, 30 days | 1 from 1 payers (the provider's figure, not ours) |
Our checks, last 30 days
| Day | Result | HTTP | Asked | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-25 | valid payment request | 402 | $0.002 | 988 ms |
Example input (from the provider)
{
"method": "GET",
"queryParams": {
"maxItems": "10",
"mode": "search",
"q": "ai agents"
},
"type": "http"
}
Promised output schema (from the provider)
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"input": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"method": {
"enum": [
"GET"
],
"type": "string"
},
"queryParams": {
"properties": {
"days": {
"description": "Search only: limit to stories from the last N days",
"type": "string"
},
"maxItems": {
"description": "1-50, default 20",
"type": "string"
},
"mode": {
"description": "top | new | best | ask | show | search (default top)",
"type": "string"
},
"q": {
"description": "Search query (required for mode=search)",
"type": "string"
},
"sort": {
"description": "Search only: relevance | date (default relevance)",
"type": "string"
},
"tags": {
"description": "Search only: story | ask_hn | show_hn | front_page | comment (default story)",
"type": "string"
}
},
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"const": "http",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"method"
],
"type": "object"
},
"output": {
"properties": {
"example": {
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type"
],
"type": "object"
}
},
"required": [
"input"
],
"type": "object"
}