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Search Hacker News stories through the public Algolia HN Search API.

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$2.00 / 1,000 results

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Alexander Abernathy

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Founders, analysts, and developer-relations teams monitoring discussion around technologies, competitors, and market terms.

Input

Provide story search queries and a maximum result count per query.

Output

Each item uses the portfolio normalized fields: source, query, recordType, title, url, and summary, plus source-specific fields.

Example input

{
  "queries": [
    "cybersecurity",
    "ai agents"
  ],
  "maxResults": 10
}

Example output

{
  "source": "hacker_news_algolia",
  "query": "cybersecurity",
  "recordType": "hn_story",
  "title": "Example Hacker News story",
  "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=123",
  "summary": "42 points, 10 comments, author alice."
}

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