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HackerNews Highest-Voted Best Stories Feed

Fetches the highest-voted best stories on HackerNews.

Call it (no API key)

GET https://api.agentdatahub.de/api/v1/call/hackernews-best-stories?compact=1

Full metadata: without compact=1 · Markdown: format=llm · Only some fields: add &fields=a,b.c · MCP: tool call_api with {"apiId":"hackernews-best-stories"}

Parameters

None.

Example response (live, compact)

{
  "apiId": "hackernews-best-stories",
  "data_freshness": "live",
  "data": {
    "feed": "beststories",
    "stories": [
      {
        "id": 50242939,
        "title": "Anthropic S-1",
        "url": "https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2130357/000162828026067168/anthropicpbc-sx1.htm",
        "score": 1684,
        "comments_count": 1640
      },
      {
        "id": 50251344,
        "title": "Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics",
        "url": "https://openai.com/index/building-scientific-understanding-with-academic-communities/",
        "score": 1117,
        "comments_count": 650
      },
      {
        "id": 50245524,
        "title": "Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce",
        "url": "https://www.seattletimes.com/business/microsoft/microsoft-offers-mass-buyouts-for-roughly-a-quarter-of-its-workforce/",
        "score": 1036,
        "comments_count": 1083
      },
      {
        "id": 50245138,
        "title": "Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models",
        "url": "https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/building-reasoning-models",
        "score": 817,
        "comments_count": 108
      },
      {
        "id": 50251661,
        "title": "The Exponential Time Hypothesis Is False [pdf]",
        "url": "https://github.com/openai/math/blob/main/preprints/The-Exponential-Time-Hypothesis-is-False-October-25-2026/paper.pdf",
        "score": 773,
        "comments_count": 279
      },
      {
        "id": 50259604,
        "title": "US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans",
        "url": "https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-government-is-hiding-a-secret-court-ruling-about-how-it-spies-on-americans/",
        "score": 627,
        "comments_count": 214
      },
      {
        "id": 50248124,
        "title": "GPT-6.1 Terra",
        "url": "https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-6-1-terra/",
        "score": 620,
        "comments_count": 413
      },
      {
        "id": 50257325,
        "title": "AI promised less work. I've never worked more",
        "url": "https://oioannou.com/blog/ai-promised-less-work/",
        "score": 605,
        "comments_count": 586
      }
    ]
  },
  "source": "Y Combinator HackerNews Official Firebase API",
  "license": "MIT / Public API (Y Combinator)"
}

Source & license

SourceY Combinator HackerNews Official Firebase API
LicenseMIT / Public API (Y Combinator)
Source URLhttps://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/beststories.json
Termshttps://hacker-news.firebaseio.com
CategoryKnowledge, Research & News › 4. Tech News, Spaceflight & Standards