Tool detail
Hacker News Data
Return current Hacker News lists (top/new/best/ask/show/job) or every story, job and poll from one past UTC date, with optional nested comments.
Categories: News
Use when
- get today's top Hacker News stories
- pull every Hacker News post from a specific past date
- fetch a story's comment thread including nested replies
Not for
- not full-text search of Hacker News -- list/date scans only
Inputs
POST JSON body, all optional: category (top/new/best/ask/show/job) or date (YYYY-MM-DD); limit, comment_limit, reply_depth, replies_per_comment, page_token.
Admitted input schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"category": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 0,
"maxLength": 4096,
"description": "Which current list to pull from: top, new, best, ask, show, or job. Ignored if a date is given."
},
"comment_limit": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": -9007199254740991,
"maximum": 9007199254740991,
"description": "How many top-level comments to fetch per story in category mode. Default 10, maximum 100, 0 means none."
},
"date": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 0,
"maxLength": 4096,
"description": "A calendar day in YYYY-MM-DD format (UTC). If given, the tool switches to scanning that whole day instead of using a category."
},
"limit": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": -9007199254740991,
"maximum": 9007199254740991,
"description": "The largest number of results to return. Default is 30, maximum is 200."
},
"page_token": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": -9007199254740991,
"maximum": 9007199254740991,
"description": "A resume point from a previous date-scan response, used to continue scanning the same day where it left off."
},
"replies_per_comment": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": -9007199254740991,
"maximum": 9007199254740991,
"description": "The largest number of replies fetched per comment at each level. Default 5, maximum 20."
},
"reply_depth": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": -9007199254740991,
"maximum": 9007199254740991,
"description": "How many levels of nested replies to fetch below each comment. Default 0, maximum 5."
}
},
"required": [],
"additionalProperties": false
}Endpoint
- Method
POST- URL
https://hackernews-data.underscoredone.com/fetch
Payment
- Protocol
- x402
- Listed price
- 0.01 USDC per call on Base.
- Payment method
- exact
- Network
- eip155:8453
- Asset
- 0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913
Listed terms are catalog metadata. The caller supplies inputs and calls the tool outside Onelayer. If payment is required, the caller uses a compatible wallet to pay.
Source
- Directory
- Coinbase x402 Bazaar
- Record
- POST https://hackernews-data.underscoredone.com/fetch
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-30T20:37:07.382Z
- Catalog file SHA-256
6837ccddf886f0007cf3727ea9d27faaa5047b51b4f425345c554ce1c271a524- Catalog built
- 2026-09-30T22:31:58.034Z