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AgentUtility.ai

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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Offering

Provider
x402.agentutility.ai
Method
POST
Offering type
Api Endpoint
Transport type
http
Category
Social Intelligence
Delivery
Not provided
Pricing model
Not provided
x402 version
2

Endpoint context

URL
https://x402.agentutility.ai/hacker-news-search
MIME type
Not provided
First seen
2026-10-16T01:50:10.647Z
Last seen
Tags
web-probe, hacker, News, Search

Website

Payment pricing

x402 payment terms are the authoritative price for calling this endpoint.

Payment option 1
0.001 USDC
Atomic price: 1000 · Network: eip155:8453 · Asset: USDC · Scheme: exact
Payment option 2
0.001 USDC
Atomic price: 1000 · Network: solana:5eykt4UsFv8P8NJdTREpY1vzqKqZKvdp · Asset: USDC · Scheme: exact
Raw x402 terms
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    "amount": "1000",
    "payTo": "0x6c0752c09e7F6fA6526fCDf40e456a159ebB5621"
  },
  {
    "scheme": "exact",
    "network": "solana:5eykt4UsFv8P8NJdTREpY1vzqKqZKvdp",
    "asset": "EPjFWdd5AufqSSqeM2qN1xzybapC8G4wEGGkZwyTDt1v",
    "amount": "1000",
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Observed health

Status
Healthy
Latest latency
3939 ms
Average latency
3288 ms
HTTP status
204
Last checked
Reachability
85.7% over 14 checks

Latency is measured to the first response headers. A reachable result does not verify response accuracy or merchant identity.

Input schema

{
  "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 — 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 — 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 schema

{
  "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"
}