Tech news API: the current Hacker News front page — 30 ranked stories as normalized JSON:
Tech news API: the current Hacker News front page — 30 ranked stories as normalized JSON: rank, story id, title, outbound article URL (or HN discussion link for self-posts), points, author, comment count, ISO 8601 time. Single upstream call via the official Algolia HN API. Use for tech trend detection, topic monitoring, news agents, and content-pipeline seeding. Cached up to 2 minutes.
5000 (raw units)
price
4
calls / 30d
3
unique payers
2026-08-30
updated
Provider
gateway.stride20k.com · discovered, not yet claimed by its owner
Payment (x402 accepts[])
[
{
"scheme": "exact",
"network": "eip155:8453",
"payTo": "0x552Cc4A10878C7F20574489D47184249657Ca3f6",
"asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
"amount": "5000",
"maxTimeoutSeconds": 60
}
]Output schema
{
"bazaar": {
"info": {
"input": {
"method": "GET",
"queryParams": {},
"type": "http"
},
"output": {
"example": {
"data": {
"count": 30,
"stories": [
{
"author": "hhs",
"commentCount": 24,
"id": 48780870,
"isSelfPost": false,
"points": 117,
"rank": 1,
"submittedAt": "2026-07-03T20:00:00.000Z",
"title": "Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches",
"url": "https://news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-environment-science-and-economy/giant-trees/"
}
]
},
"endpoint": "/news/tech-pulse",
"meta": {
"attribution": null,
"cached": false,
"fetchedAt": "2026-07-04T00:00:00.000Z",
"source": "Hacker News (Algolia search API)"
},
"ok": true
},
"type": "json"
}
},
"schema": {
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"input": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"method": {
"enum": [
"GET"
],
"type": "string"
},
"queryParams": {
"properties": {},
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"const": "http",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"method"
],
"type": "object"
},
"output": {
"properties": {
"example": {
"properties": {
"data": {
"properties": {
"count": {
"description": "Number of stories returned (≤30).",
"type": "integer"
},
"stories": {
"description": "Ranked stories: { rank, id, title, url, isSelfPost, points, author, commentCount, submittedAt }.",
"minItems": 1,
"type": "array"
}
},
"required": [
"count",
"stories"
],
"type": "object"
},
"endpoint": {
"description": "Always \"/news/tech-pulse\".",
"type": "string"
},
"meta": {
"properties": {
"attribution": {
"description": "Licensing attribution when the source requires it.",
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"cached": {
"description": "Whether this response was served from cache.",
"type": "boolean"
},
"fetchedAt": {
"description": "ISO 8601 time the data was actually retrieved from the upstream.",
"type": "string"
},
"source": {
"description": "Upstream source: Hacker News (Algolia search API).",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"source",
"cached",
"fetchedAt"
],
"type": "object"
},
"ok": {
"description": "true on success.",
"type": "boolean"
}
},
"required": [
"ok",
"endpoint",
"data",
"meta"
],
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type"
],
"type": "object"
}
},
"required": [
"input"
],
"type": "object"
}
}
}Use it
curl
curl "https://gateway.stride20k.com/news/tech-pulse" # -> 402 Payment Required, accepts[] lists how to pay # retry with a PAYMENT-SIGNATURE (or PAYMENT header) once paid
JavaScript
const res = await fetch("https://gateway.stride20k.com/news/tech-pulse");
if (res.status === 402) {
const { accepts } = await res.json();
// pay one of accepts[] via an x402 client, then retry with the payment header
}Python
import httpx
res = httpx.get("https://gateway.stride20k.com/news/tech-pulse")
if res.status_code == 402:
accepts = res.json()["accepts"]
# pay one of accepts[] via an x402 client, then retry with the payment headerMachine-readable
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