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HackerNews Live Top Stories Feed

Fetches the current top stories on Y Combinator HackerNews with scores, URLs, authors, and comment counts.

Call it (no API key)

GET https://api.agentdatahub.de/api/v1/call/hackernews-top-stories?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-top-stories"}

Parameters

Example response (live, compact)

{
  "apiId": "hackernews-top-stories",
  "data_freshness": "live",
  "data": {
    "feed": "topstories",
    "count": 8,
    "stories": [
      {
        "id": 50261319,
        "title": "Genie 4",
        "url": "https://deepmind.google/blog/genie-4-a-new-generation-of-world-simulation/",
        "score": 346,
        "by": "acossta",
        "comments_count": 195
      },
      {
        "id": 50261819,
        "title": "Police Are Using AI to Pull over Drivers for 'Suspicious' Behavior",
        "url": "https://gizmodo.com/police-are-using-ai-to-pull-over-drivers-for-suspicious-behavior-2000831220",
        "score": 178,
        "by": "gumby",
        "comments_count": 104
      },
      {
        "id": 50261998,
        "title": "Ghostty 1.4.0",
        "url": "https://ghostty.org/docs/install/release-notes/1-4-0",
        "score": 212,
        "by": "deaux",
        "comments_count": 78
      },
      {
        "id": 50261647,
        "title": "Classification of Finite Simple Groups Formalized in Lean",
        "url": "https://cfsg.axiommath.ai/",
        "score": 65,
        "by": "pfdietz",
        "comments_count": 20
      },
      {
        "id": 50257419,
        "title": "Python's experimental JIT to be removed",
        "url": "https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1102102/0c00e4d550f25f8c/",
        "score": 336,
        "by": "f311a",
        "comments_count": 173
      },
      {
        "id": 50258538,
        "title": "New iMac with M6",
        "url": "https://www.apple.com/imac/",
        "score": 204,
        "by": "notfried",
        "comments_count": 244
      },
      {
        "id": 50257326,
        "title": "Wikipedia's Cleanup of AI-Generated Content",
        "url": "https://spectrum.ieee.org/wikipedia-wikiproject-ai-writing-cleanup",
        "score": 335,
        "by": "rbanffy",
        "comments_count": 157
      },
      {
        "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": 487,
        "by": "helterskelter2",
        "comments_count": 150
      }
    ]
  },
  "source": "Y Combinator HackerNews Official Firebase API",
  "license": "MIT / Public API (Y Combinator)"
}

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