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Analyze Hacker News stories by keyword or top/new. Get trend scores and engagement ratios.

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Takuma

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Features

Keyword Search — Full-text search powered by the HN Algolia API, sorted by relevance, date, or points.
Top Stories — Real-time top 500 stories fetched from the official HN Firebase API.
New Stories — Freshest stories on HN, straight from the new stories feed.
Trend Score — Each story gets a trendScore = points / age_hours, surfacing popular recent stories.
Engagement Ratio — commentCount / points reveals which stories spark discussion beyond upvotes.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
`mode`	enum	`topstories`	`search`, `topstories`, or `newstories`
`keyword`	string	—	Required when `mode=search`
`maxResults`	integer	`30`	Max stories to return (1–500)
`sortBy`	enum	`relevance`	`relevance`, `date`, or `points` (search mode only)
`proxyConfiguration`	object	—	Optional Apify Proxy settings

Output

Each record contains:

Field	Type	Description
`id`	string	HN story ID
`title`	string	Story title
`url`	string	Story URL (falls back to HN comments page)
`author`	string	Submitter username
`points`	integer	Upvote count
`commentCount`	integer	Number of comments
`createdAt`	string	ISO 8601 creation timestamp
`storyType`	string	`story`, `job`, or `poll`
`domain`	string	Bare domain extracted from URL
`trendScore`	float	`points / age_hours` — freshness-weighted popularity
`engagementRatio`	float	`commentCount / points` — discussion intensity
`rank`	integer	Position in the result list
`mode`	string	Which fetch mode was used
`keyword`	string	Search keyword (search mode only)

Example

{
  "id": "39876543",
  "title": "Show HN: I built a CLI tool that summarizes git history with AI",
  "url": "https://github.com/example/gitsum",
  "author": "techfounder",
  "points": 412,
  "commentCount": 87,
  "createdAt": "2026-06-27T08:30:00Z",
  "storyType": "story",
  "domain": "github.com",
  "trendScore": 68.67,
  "engagementRatio": 0.2112,
  "rank": 1,
  "mode": "topstories"
}

Data Sources

HN Algolia Search API — keyword search
HN Firebase REST API — top/new story lists and item details

Both APIs are public, free, and require no authentication.

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