Search Hacker News for startup news, YC news, Show HN launches, and founder disc
Search Hacker News for startup news, YC news, Show HN launches, and founder discussion through the Algolia HN index. Send a query, then filter stories, comments, or polls by author, minimum points, and ISO-8601 date range; sort by relevance or newest first. Returns titles, authors, points, comment counts, timestamps, URLs, and matching text. Use it as a startup news search API, YC news search, Show HN tracker, or developer news feed.
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Endpoint
POST https://x402.agentutility.ai/hacker-news-search
| Category | Code and developer |
|---|---|
| Provider host | x402.agentutility.ai |
| Networks | eip155:8453, solana:5eykt4UsFv8P8NJdTREpY1vzqKqZKvdp |
| Payment schemes | exact |
| Self-reported calls, 30 days | 3 from 3 payers (the provider's figure, not ours) |
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Example input (from the provider)
{
"body": {
"limit": 5,
"query": "rust async"
},
"bodyType": "json",
"method": "POST",
"type": "http"
}
Promised output schema (from the provider)
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"input": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"body": {
"properties": {
"author": {
"description": "Filter to a specific HN username (e.g. 'pg', 'dang').",
"type": "string"
},
"limit": {
"description": "Max hits to return. 1-20. Default 10.",
"type": "number"
},
"min_points": {
"description": "Minimum points (upvotes) floor. Comments don't have points; using this implicitly filters to stories.",
"type": "number"
},
"query": {
"description": "Free-text search query (matches title, body, author, URL).",
"type": "string"
},
"since": {
"description": "Lower bound on created_at \u2014 ISO8601 date (YYYY-MM-DD) or full timestamp.",
"type": "string"
},
"sort": {
"description": "'relevance' (default, popularity-weighted) or 'date' (most-recent-first).",
"enum": [
"relevance",
"date"
],
"type": "string"
},
"type": {
"description": "Restrict to a single HN item type. Omit to include all types.",
"enum": [
"story",
"comment",
"poll"
],
"type": "string"
},
"until": {
"description": "Upper bound on created_at \u2014 ISO8601 date (YYYY-MM-DD) or full timestamp.",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"query"
]
},
"bodyType": {
"enum": [
"json",
"form-data",
"text"
],
"type": "string"
},
"method": {
"enum": [
"POST"
],
"type": "string"
},
"type": {
"const": "http",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"method",
"bodyType",
"body"
],
"type": "object"
},
"output": {
"properties": {
"example": {
"properties": {
"query": {
"type": "string"
},
"results": {
"items": {
"properties": {
"author": {
"type": "string"
},
"comments_count": {
"type": "integer"
},
"created_at": {
"type": "string"
},
"id": {
"type": "string"
},
"points": {
"type": "integer"
},
"title": {
"type": "string"
},
"url": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"type": "object"
},
"type": "array"
},
"source": {
"type": "string"
},
"total_hits": {
"type": "integer"
}
},
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type"
],
"type": "object"
}
},
"required": [
"input"
],
"type": "object"
}