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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| Name | Required | Default | Description |
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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": "riordan",
"comments": 637,
"id": 49241679,
"score": 1186,
"time": 1786356602,
"title": "Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows",
"url": "https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-glimmer-open-agentic-model"
},
{
"by": "aziaziazi",
"comments": 481,
"id": 49254880,
"score": 1015,
"time": 1786436146,
"title": "France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls",
"url": "https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2026/08/06/france-to-ban-unsolicited-telemarketing-calls-from-august-11_6756208_7.html"
},
{
"by": "awnird",
"comments": 902,
"id": 49250836,
"score": 897,
"time": 1786401390,
"title": "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing",
"url": "https://thewalrus.ca/google-search-is-dying/"
},
{
"by": "slowin",
"comments": 742,
"id": 49251411,
"score": 649,
"time": 1786405550,
"title": "The UK's war on anonymity has come to America",
"url": "https://www.effort.news/uk-lobby"
},
{
"by": "root-parent",
"comments": 597,
"id": 49243880,
"score": 633,
"time": 1786370782,
"title": "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models",
"url": "https://www.ft.com/content/4e3957f8-ea7c-4c46-a3de-cdce8e526878"
},
{
"by": "colesantiago",
"comments": 206,
"id": 49242739,
"score": 617,
"time": 1786364765,
"title": "Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open",
"url": "https://bobdahacker.com/blog/tldv-hack"
},
{
"by": "quantumgarbage",
"comments": 271,
"id": 49257876,
"score": 603,
"time": 1786454520,
"title": "Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs",
"url": "https://stolen-thoughts.com/"
},
{
"by": "stevekemp",
"comments": 375,
"id": 49257377,
"score": 528,
"time": 1786452119,
"title": "England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C",
"url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75gk620r22o"
},
{
"by": "HenryNdubuaku",
"comments": 172,
"id": 49246804,
"score": 515,
"time": 1786382527,
"title": "Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots",
"url": "https://cactuscompute.com/needle"
},
{
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"id": 49263497,
"score": 483,
"time": 1786477784,
"title": "Compression is prediction",
"url": "https://ngrok.com/blog/compression-is-prediction"
},
{
"by": "mfiguiere",
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"id": 49250109,
"score": 433,
"time": 1786397816,
"title": "How Claude marks AI-generated content",
"url": "https://support.claude.com/en/articles/16266773-how-claude-marks-ai-generated-content"
},
{
"by": "swyx",
"comments": 93,
"id": 49252179,
"score": 428,
"time": 1786411329,
"title": "H3-metal – Native MiniMax-H3 inference for Apple Silicon",
"url": "https://github.com/antirez/h3.c"
},
{
"by": "ilamont",
"comments": 401,
"id": 49257160,
"score": 404,
"time": 1786450987,
"title": "OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining",
"url": "https://www.ft.com/content/e49dfb75-f841-4466-a577-f7aaff8779a0"
},
{
"by": "RickJWagner",
"comments": 589,
"id": 49245023,
"score": 400,
"time": 1786375924,
"title": "Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's",
"url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1j1kjy7gewo"
},
{
"by": "dayanruben",
"comments": 174,
"id": 49261128,
"score": 374,
"time": 1786467406,
"title": "Mojo 1.0",
"url": "https://www.modular.com/blog/modular-26-5-mojo-1-0-is-here"
},
{
"by": "0xedb",
"comments": 407,
"id": 49261133,
"score": 352,
"time": 1786467429,
"title": "Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering",
"url": "https://developers.googleblog.com/why-go-is-an-ideal-language-for-ai-assisted-software-engineering/"
},
{
"by": "speckx",
"comments": 511,
"id": 49249150,
"score": 339,
"time": 1786393206,
"title": "Illinois just passed a law that puts Linux on the hook for age verification",
"url": "https://linuxstans.com/illinois-hb5511-operating-system-age-verification/"
},
{
"by": "jonbaer",
"comments": 166,
"id": 49255710,
"score": 329,
"time": 1786442520,
"title": "Nvidia's Risky Business",
"url": "https://stratechery.com/2026/nvidias-risky-business/"
},
{
"by": "BlueBerry2001",
"comments": 338,
"id": 49255496,
"score": 306,
"time": 1786441202,
"title": "London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces",
"url": "https://www.btp.police.uk/news/btp/news/england/btp-expands-live-facial-recognition-lfr-trial-into-london-underground-stations/"
},
{
"by": "eatonphil",
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"id": 49251702,
"score": 296,
"time": 1786407855,
"title": "Chicken Scheme 6.0",
"url": "https://code.call-cc.org/releases/6.0.0/NEWS"
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"success": true
}