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.
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default: 20
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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": "verditelabs",
"comments": 331,
"id": 48675179,
"score": 1532,
"time": 1782402487,
"title": "An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time",
"url": "https://scrollprize.org/firstscroll"
},
{
"by": "minimaxir",
"comments": 137,
"id": 48678852,
"score": 1171,
"time": 1782419617,
"title": "Om Malik has died",
"url": "https://om.co/2026/06/24/1966-2026/"
},
{
"by": "bilsbie",
"comments": 496,
"id": 48679608,
"score": 971,
"time": 1782423895,
"title": "The 'papers, please' era of the internet will decimate your privacy",
"url": "https://expression.fire.org/p/the-papers-please-era-of-the-internet"
},
{
"by": "jamdesk",
"comments": 462,
"id": 48663324,
"score": 813,
"time": 1782323220,
"title": "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom",
"url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/24/openai-unveils-its-first-custom-chip-built-by-broadcom/"
},
{
"by": "virgildotcodes",
"comments": 1179,
"id": 48672732,
"score": 800,
"time": 1782392576,
"title": "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads",
"url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/apple-raises-prices-macbooks-ipads-memory-costs-skyrocket-2026-06-25/"
},
{
"by": "htrp",
"comments": 1271,
"id": 48664814,
"score": 778,
"time": 1782330481,
"title": "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities",
"url": "https://www.reuters.com/world/china/anthropic-says-alibaba-illicitly-extracted-claude-ai-model-capabilities-2026-06-24/"
},
{
"by": "ytkimirti",
"comments": 149,
"id": 48673671,
"score": 752,
"time": 1782396535,
"title": "Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments",
"url": "https://hackernewstrends.com"
},
{
"by": "panza",
"comments": 267,
"id": 48669534,
"score": 667,
"time": 1782367204,
"title": "Half-Life 2 in a Browser",
"url": "https://hl2.slqnt.dev/"
},
{
"by": "alanwreath",
"comments": 320,
"id": 48674446,
"score": 594,
"time": 1782399530,
"title": "Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors",
"url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-25/ford-has-been-rehiring-quality-inspectors-after-ai-fell-short"
},
{
"by": "mmunj",
"comments": 232,
"id": 48672328,
"score": 558,
"time": 1782390185,
"title": "Hey Nico, you didn't vibe code your data room but stole it from Papermark",
"url": "https://twitter.com/mfts0/status/2070080422482977095"
},
{
"by": "mooreds",
"comments": 226,
"id": 48671468,
"score": 509,
"time": 1782383296,
"title": "LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach",
"url": "https://9to5mac.com/2026/06/23/lastpass-notifies-users-of-yet-another-data-breach/"
},
{
"by": "Curiositry",
"comments": 132,
"id": 48666927,
"score": 458,
"time": 1782344797,
"title": "Blogging can just be stating the obvious",
"url": "https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/blogging-stating-the-obvious/"
},
{
"by": "dhruv3006",
"comments": 193,
"id": 48682737,
"score": 394,
"time": 1782452436,
"title": "We all depend on open source. We will defend it together",
"url": "https://akrites.org/letter/"
},
{
"by": "terryds",
"comments": 161,
"id": 48668033,
"score": 373,
"time": 1782353890,
"title": "OAuth for all",
"url": "https://blog.cloudflare.com/oauth-for-all/"
},
{
"by": "porridgeraisin",
"comments": 193,
"id": 48674967,
"score": 366,
"time": 1782401617,
"title": "IBM debuts sub-1 nanometer chip technology",
"url": "https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-06-25-ibm-debuts-worlds-first-sub-1-nanometer-chip-technology"
},
{
"by": "mooreds",
"comments": 62,
"id": 48686093,
"score": 351,
"time": 1782478687,
"title": "Incident CVE-2026-LGTM",
"url": "https://nesbitt.io/2026/06/26/incident-report-cve-2026-lgtm.html"
},
{
"by": "engomez",
"comments": 158,
"id": 48675435,
"score": 340,
"time": 1782403486,
"title": "Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion",
"url": "https://github.com/inkeep/open-knowledge"
},
{
"by": "Cider9986",
"comments": 122,
"id": 48672764,
"score": 305,
"time": 1782392827,
"title": "Countries are competing to see which can carry out mass surveillance the best",
"url": "https://mullvad.net/en/why-privacy-matters/state-mass-surveillance"
},
{
"by": "scrlk",
"comments": 333,
"id": 48676795,
"score": 303,
"time": 1782409124,
"title": "Apple to skip high-end M6 Mac chips in favor of AI-focused M7 line",
"url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-25/apple-to-skip-high-end-m6-mac-chips-to-launch-m7-pro-m7-max-m7-ultra-instead?embedded-checkout=true"
},
{
"by": "cuchoi",
"comments": 129,
"id": 48681687,
"score": 300,
"time": 1782440963,
"title": "What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant",
"url": "https://www.fernandoi.cl/posts/hackmyclaw/"
}
],
"success": true
}