Tool detail
AgentUtility.ai
Searches Hacker News (via the Algolia HN index) for stories, comments or polls matching a query, filterable by author, minimum points and date range.
Categories: News
Use when
- search Hacker News for a startup or topic
- find Show HN launches or YC-related discussion
- track a specific HN author's posts or comments
Not for
- not other news sources - Hacker News/Algolia index only
Inputs
POST JSON body: query (string, required); author, min_points, since, until, sort (relevance/date), type (story/comment/poll), limit (1-20, default 10) all optional.
Admitted input schema
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"author": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 0,
"maxLength": 4096,
"description": "Filter to a specific HN username (e.g. 'pg', 'dang')."
},
"limit": {
"type": "number",
"minimum": -9007199254740991,
"maximum": 9007199254740991,
"description": "Max hits to return. 1-20. Default 10."
},
"min_points": {
"type": "number",
"minimum": -9007199254740991,
"maximum": 9007199254740991,
"description": "Minimum points (upvotes) floor. Comments don't have points; using this implicitly filters to stories."
},
"query": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 0,
"maxLength": 4096,
"description": "Free-text search query (matches title, body, author, URL)."
},
"since": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 0,
"maxLength": 4096,
"description": "Lower bound on created_at — ISO8601 date (YYYY-MM-DD) or full timestamp."
},
"sort": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 0,
"maxLength": 4096,
"enum": [
"relevance",
"date"
],
"description": "'relevance' (default, popularity-weighted) or 'date' (most-recent-first)."
},
"type": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 0,
"maxLength": 4096,
"enum": [
"story",
"comment",
"poll"
],
"description": "Restrict to a single HN item type. Omit to include all types."
},
"until": {
"type": "string",
"minLength": 0,
"maxLength": 4096,
"description": "Upper bound on created_at — ISO8601 date (YYYY-MM-DD) or full timestamp."
}
},
"required": [
"query"
],
"additionalProperties": false
}Endpoint
- Method
POST- URL
https://x402.agentutility.ai/hacker-news-search
Payment
- Protocol
- x402
- Listed price
- 0.001 USDC per request 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://x402.agentutility.ai/hacker-news-search
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-30T20:37:07.382Z
- Catalog file SHA-256
6837ccddf886f0007cf3727ea9d27faaa5047b51b4f425345c554ce1c271a524- Catalog built
- 2026-09-30T22:31:58.034Z