GET /news/hackernews/best
Get the highest-voted Hacker News stories over a longer time period (the 'best' ranking emphasizes total score over recency). Returns story titles, URLs, scores, comment counts, and authors. Useful for discovering the most impactful tech stories you might have missed, building 'best of HN' digests, and curating high-quality developer content. Data from the Hacker News API.
limit
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default: 20
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| Name | Required | Default | Description |
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No | 20 | Limit |
curl https://nordapi.ee/api/v1/news/hackernews/best
curl https://nordapi.ee/api/v1/news/hackernews/best
curl "https://nordapi.ee/api/v1/news/hackernews/best?limit=10"
{
"count": 20,
"data": [
{
"by": "hn_acker",
"comments": 381,
"id": 49927754,
"score": 776,
"time": 1790893387,
"title": "Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility",
"url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/court-agrees-eff-utahs-vpn-law-demands-technical-impossibility"
},
{
"by": "luispa",
"comments": 405,
"id": 49928121,
"score": 570,
"time": 1790896244,
"title": "Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel",
"url": "https://lwn.net/Articles/1097401/"
},
{
"by": "supermdguy",
"comments": 128,
"id": 49927760,
"score": 568,
"time": 1790893418,
"title": "Frog and Toad and the Increasingly Capable Machines",
"url": "https://www.frogandtoad.ai/"
},
{
"by": "soheilpro",
"comments": 321,
"id": 49937276,
"score": 540,
"time": 1790968016,
"title": "Apple Pass Designer",
"url": "https://developer.apple.com/pass-designer/"
},
{
"by": "34679",
"comments": 112,
"id": 49941114,
"score": 474,
"time": 1790997550,
"title": "Extra Big Ass Intelligence",
"url": "https://www.extrabigassintelligence.com/"
},
{
"by": "bastitx",
"comments": 273,
"id": 49942706,
"score": 439,
"time": 1791020164,
"title": "Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model",
"url": "https://aleph-alpha.com/en/blog/kolibri-has-landed-a-sovereign-open-weight-model/"
},
{
"by": "azhenley",
"comments": 125,
"id": 49940394,
"score": 425,
"time": 1790988925,
"title": "Newgrounds.com โ A community of games, music, and art",
"url": "https://www.newgrounds.com/"
},
{
"by": "tejaskumar__",
"comments": 11,
"id": 49943034,
"score": 409,
"time": 1791024231,
"title": "Aleph Alpha Kolibri: How the sovereign German LLM works",
"url": "https://tej.as/blog/aleph-alpha-kolibri"
},
{
"by": "Kuyawa",
"comments": 217,
"id": 49929489,
"score": 405,
"time": 1790910680,
"title": "DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows",
"url": "https://www.deepseek.com/en/harness/"
},
{
"by": "mariuz",
"comments": 79,
"id": 49932147,
"score": 386,
"time": 1790939237,
"title": "A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting",
"url": "https://bsky.app/profile/theplanetaryguy.com/post/3mwucf5ert22f"
},
{
"by": "alstonite",
"comments": 108,
"id": 49928566,
"score": 365,
"time": 1790900876,
"title": "Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas",
"url": "https://stillwet.art/"
},
{
"by": "polvi",
"comments": 327,
"id": 49927747,
"score": 341,
"time": 1790893341,
"title": "Sites in ChatGPT",
"url": "https://chatgpt.com/features/sites/"
},
{
"by": "fibo",
"comments": 97,
"id": 49936575,
"score": 338,
"time": 1790964076,
"title": "From the creator of Redis; run LLM locally with ds4",
"url": "https://dwarfstar.sh/"
},
{
"by": "usernomdeguerre",
"comments": 116,
"id": 49929391,
"score": 321,
"time": 1790909487,
"title": "Greg Kroah-Hartman โ Security in the LLM Age [video]",
"url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnV_cWeoo5Q"
},
{
"by": "pietroppeter",
"comments": 80,
"id": 49930047,
"score": 302,
"time": 1790917978,
"title": "Shimano Bicycle Museum Review",
"url": "https://inrng.com/2026/10/shimano-bicycle-museum/"
},
{
"by": "suopspaces",
"comments": 180,
"id": 49933235,
"score": 301,
"time": 1790947112,
"title": "The Legend of von Neumann (1973) [pdf]",
"url": "https://gwern.net/doc/math/1973-halmos.pdf"
},
{
"by": "notfirstpost",
"comments": 201,
"id": 49937631,
"score": 285,
"time": 1790969821,
"title": "Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS",
"url": "https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=p6zjojqw"
},
{
"by": "PaulHoule",
"comments": 140,
"id": 49933740,
"score": 276,
"time": 1790950284,
"title": "With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI until now",
"url": "https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/10/ai-finally-beat-the-best-stratego-player-in-history-and-did-it-on-a-budget/"
},
{
"by": "ErenayDev",
"comments": 195,
"id": 49938521,
"score": 260,
"time": 1790974596,
"title": "Zig v0.17.0",
"url": "https://ziglang.org/download/0.17.0/release-notes.html"
},
{
"by": "signa11",
"comments": 190,
"id": 49933869,
"score": 259,
"time": 1790950932,
"title": "The Forgetful CPU (Linux on M4)",
"url": "https://yuka.dev/blog-2026-10-02-linux-m4.html"
}
],
"success": true
}