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HN Best Stories

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.

Parameters

limit optional default: 20

Limit

Example Requests

Basic usage
curl https://nordapi.ee/api/v1/news/hackernews/best
Best 20 HN stories (default)
curl https://nordapi.ee/api/v1/news/hackernews/best
Best 10 HN stories
curl "https://nordapi.ee/api/v1/news/hackernews/best?limit=10"

Live Response

{
  "count": 20,
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    {
      "by": "verditelabs",
      "comments": 303,
      "id": 48675179,
      "score": 1442,
      "time": 1782402487,
      "title": "An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time",
      "url": "https://scrollprize.org/firstscroll"
    },
    {
      "by": "minimaxir",
      "comments": 125,
      "id": 48678852,
      "score": 1063,
      "time": 1782419617,
      "title": "Om Malik has died",
      "url": "https://om.co/2026/06/24/1966-2026/"
    },
    {
      "by": "bilsbie",
      "comments": 427,
      "id": 48679608,
      "score": 871,
      "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": 461,
      "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": "htrp",
      "comments": 1257,
      "id": 48664814,
      "score": 772,
      "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": "virgildotcodes",
      "comments": 1124,
      "id": 48672732,
      "score": 768,
      "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": "ytkimirti",
      "comments": 149,
      "id": 48673671,
      "score": 740,
      "time": 1782396535,
      "title": "Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments",
      "url": "https://hackernewstrends.com"
    },
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      "by": "panza",
      "comments": 265,
      "id": 48669534,
      "score": 658,
      "time": 1782367204,
      "title": "Half-Life 2 in a Browser",
      "url": "https://hl2.slqnt.dev/"
    },
    {
      "by": "alanwreath",
      "comments": 314,
      "id": 48674446,
      "score": 591,
      "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"
    },
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      "by": "shadowtree",
      "comments": 276,
      "id": 48661825,
      "score": 560,
      "time": 1782316579,
      "title": "There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days",
      "url": "https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2069799283369345247"
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      "by": "mooreds",
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      "id": 48671468,
      "score": 508,
      "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/"
    },
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      "by": "nitin_flanker",
      "comments": 412,
      "id": 48660178,
      "score": 471,
      "time": 1782310211,
      "title": "45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero",
      "url": "https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/liquid-cooling-ai-factories/"
    },
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      "by": "Curiositry",
      "comments": 131,
      "id": 48666927,
      "score": 455,
      "time": 1782344797,
      "title": "Blogging can just be stating the obvious",
      "url": "https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/blogging-stating-the-obvious/"
    },
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      "by": "mmunj",
      "comments": 181,
      "id": 48672328,
      "score": 450,
      "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"
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      "by": "doener",
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      "time": 1782312101,
      "title": "RubyLLM: A Ruby framework for all major AI providers",
      "url": "https://rubyllm.com/"
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      "by": "terryds",
      "comments": 160,
      "id": 48668033,
      "score": 371,
      "time": 1782353890,
      "title": "OAuth for all",
      "url": "https://blog.cloudflare.com/oauth-for-all/"
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    {
      "by": "porridgeraisin",
      "comments": 188,
      "id": 48674967,
      "score": 349,
      "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"
    },
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      "by": "dhruv3006",
      "comments": 164,
      "id": 48682737,
      "score": 344,
      "time": 1782452436,
      "title": "We all depend on open source. We will defend it together",
      "url": "https://akrites.org/letter/"
    },
    {
      "by": "engomez",
      "comments": 152,
      "id": 48675435,
      "score": 310,
      "time": 1782403486,
      "title": "Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion",
      "url": "https://github.com/inkeep/open-knowledge"
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      "by": "Cider9986",
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      "id": 48672764,
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      "time": 1782392827,
      "title": "Countries are competing to see which can carry out mass surveillance the best",
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