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Hacker News Stories — Top, Best, New, Ask HN, Show HN or Jobs (live)

Current Hacker News stories of one feed: top (front page), best (highest voted), new, ask (Ask HN), show (Show HN) or job (YC startup jobs), with score, author, comment count, time and link.

Call it (no API key)

GET https://api.agentdatahub.de/api/v1/call/hackernews-stories?feed=top&limit=8&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-stories"}

Parameters

Example response (live, compact)

{
  "apiId": "hackernews-stories",
  "data_freshness": "live",
  "data": {
    "feed": "top",
    "count": 8,
    "stories": [
      {
        "id": 50296470,
        "title": "Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance",
        "url": "https://arkm.com/explorer/entity/21a94755-f604-45e5-9501-6542e23005e8",
        "discussion_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50296470",
        "score": 1423,
        "by": "Tiberium",
        "comments_count": 921,
        "time_utc": "2026-10-29T21:38:59.000Z"
      },
      {
        "id": 50289418,
        "title": "We're releasing the weights of Mistral Large 4",
        "url": "https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-large-4-oss/",
        "discussion_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50289418",
        "score": 1516,
        "by": "kuberwastaken",
        "comments_count": 399,
        "time_utc": "2026-10-29T14:13:21.000Z"
      },
      {
        "id": 50301717,
        "title": "How Do You Take a Picture of a Black Hole?",
        "url": "https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-do-you-take-a-picture-of-a-black-hole-20261029/",
        "discussion_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301717",
        "score": 16,
        "by": "dverlaeckt80",
        "comments_count": 10,
        "time_utc": "2026-10-30T09:49:02.000Z"
      },
      {
        "id": 50301462,
        "title": "elect.horse",
        "url": "https://elect.horse/",
        "discussion_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50301462",
        "score": 13,
        "by": "solarist",
        "comments_count": 2,
        "time_utc": "2026-10-30T09:14:34.000Z"
      },
      {
        "id": 50263127,
        "title": "Gilgamesh by Simon Armitage review – an ancient epic is brilliantly translated",
        "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/oct/20/gilgamesh-by-simon-armitage-review-an-ancient-epic-is-brilliantly-translated-for-our-times",
        "discussion_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50263127",
        "score": 50,
        "by": "benbreen",
        "comments_count": 17,
        "time_utc": "2026-10-27T17:54:57.000Z"
      },
      {
        "id": 50255343,
        "title": "Cuis: The Modern Smalltalk-80",
        "url": "https://cuis.st/",
        "discussion_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50255343",
        "score": 129,
        "by": "theanonymousone",
        "comments_count": 16,
        "time_utc": "2026-10-27T06:33:16.000Z"
      },
      {
        "id": 50273104,
        "title": "I'm so bad at billiards that I ended up in the hyperbolic plane [video]",
        "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL9BTbIGxLg",
        "discussion_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50273104",
        "score": 146,
        "by": "surprisetalk",
        "comments_count": 18,
        "time_utc": "2026-10-28T13:20:05.000Z"
      },
      {
        "id": 50298436,
        "title": "Herdr has released native app",
        "url": "https://github.com/herdrdev/herdr-app",
        "discussion_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298436",
        "score": 229,
        "by": "cherioo",
        "comments_count": 148,
        "time_utc": "2026-10-30T00:42:41.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "source": "Y Combinator HackerNews Official Firebase API",
  "license": "MIT / Public API (Y Combinator)"
}

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