GET /news/hackernews/top
Get the current top stories from Hacker News, ranked by the HN ranking algorithm (a combination of votes and recency). Returns story titles, URLs, scores, comment counts, and authors. Configurable limit (default 20). Essential for developer news feeds, tech dashboards, and startup community tools. Data fetched in real-time from the official Hacker News Firebase API.
limit
optional
default: 20
Limit
| Name | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
limit |
No | 20 | Limit |
curl https://nordapi.ee/api/v1/news/hackernews/top
curl https://nordapi.ee/api/v1/news/hackernews/top
curl "https://nordapi.ee/api/v1/news/hackernews/top?limit=5"
curl "https://nordapi.ee/api/v1/news/hackernews/top?limit=50"
{
"count": 20,
"data": [
{
"by": "ChuckMcM",
"comments": 68,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086190",
"id": 48086190,
"score": 257,
"time": 1778435642,
"title": "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler",
"url": "https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116550899908879585"
},
{
"by": "miniBill",
"comments": 26,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086082",
"id": 48086082,
"score": 113,
"time": 1778434990,
"title": "Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES",
"url": "https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/03/incident-report-cve-2024-yikes.html"
},
{
"by": "alex77456",
"comments": 10,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085782",
"id": 48085782,
"score": 60,
"time": 1778433310,
"title": "Tracesofhumanity.org by Joanna Rutkowska",
"url": "https://tracesofhumanity.org/hello-world/"
},
{
"by": "marc__1",
"comments": 39,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48075429",
"id": 48075429,
"score": 49,
"time": 1778338188,
"title": "Walking slower? Your ears, not your knees, might be the problem",
"url": "https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/hearing-loss-walking-speed-iphone-study-c53c482a"
},
{
"by": "herbertl",
"comments": 20,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085055",
"id": 48085055,
"score": 25,
"time": 1778429017,
"title": "The Locals Don't Know",
"url": "https://www.quarter--mile.com/The-Locals-Dont-Know"
},
{
"by": "andrewstuart",
"comments": 385,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48073201",
"id": 48073201,
"score": 490,
"time": 1778315861,
"title": "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left",
"url": "http://fourlightyears.blogspot.com/2026/05/i-returned-to-aws-and-was-reminded-hard.html"
},
{
"by": "sp_from_db",
"comments": 9,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48064789",
"id": 48064789,
"score": 44,
"time": 1778255172,
"title": "5x perf increase on writes with FPW disabled in Postgres",
"url": "https://www.databricks.com/blog/how-lakebase-architecture-delivers-5x-faster-postgres-writes"
},
{
"by": "ipnon",
"comments": 60,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48083007",
"id": 48083007,
"score": 115,
"time": 1778412410,
"title": "What's a mathematician to do? (2010)",
"url": "https://mathoverflow.net/questions/43690/whats-a-mathematician-to-do"
},
{
"by": "iancmceachern",
"comments": 175,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48084432",
"id": 48084432,
"score": 284,
"time": 1778424425,
"title": "Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer",
"url": "https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/louis-rossmann-tells-3d-printer-maker-bambu-lab-to-go-bleep-yourself-over-its-lawsuit-against-enthusiast-right-to-repair-advocate-offers-to-pay-the-legal-fees-for-a-threatened-orcaslicer-developer"
},
{
"by": "ludovicianul",
"comments": 148,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48047930",
"id": 48047930,
"score": 233,
"time": 1778151748,
"title": "Idempotency is easy until the second request is different",
"url": "https://blog.dochia.dev/blog/idempotency/"
},
{
"by": "JoachimSchipper",
"comments": 5,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061602",
"id": 48061602,
"score": 14,
"time": 1778239598,
"title": "Stop MitM on the first SSH connection, on any VPS or cloud provider",
"url": "https://www.joachimschipper.nl/Stop%20MITM%20on%20the%20first%20SSH%20connection,%20on%20any%20VPS%20or%20cloud%20provider.html"
},
{
"by": "jandeboevrie",
"comments": 89,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48082968",
"id": 48082968,
"score": 259,
"time": 1778412122,
"title": "Space Cadet Pinball on Linux",
"url": "https://brennan.io/2026/05/09/pinball-and-escrow/"
},
{
"by": "cainxinth",
"comments": 121,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048684",
"id": 48048684,
"score": 285,
"time": 1778157635,
"title": "The One Dollar Counterfeiter",
"url": "https://www.amusingplanet.com/2026/05/emerich-juettner-one-dollar.html"
},
{
"by": "imtomt",
"comments": 194,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48080587",
"id": 48080587,
"score": 363,
"time": 1778382104,
"title": "Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning",
"url": "https://github.com/imtomt/ymawky"
},
{
"by": "s1291",
"comments": 11,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48084547",
"id": 48084547,
"score": 27,
"time": 1778425240,
"title": "Shunting-Yard Animation",
"url": "https://somethingorotherwhatever.com/shunting-yard-animation/"
},
{
"by": "tamnd",
"comments": 12,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48082396",
"id": 48082396,
"score": 113,
"time": 1778406033,
"title": "Think Linear Algebra (2023)",
"url": "https://allendowney.github.io/ThinkLinearAlgebra/index.html"
},
{
"by": "marc__1",
"comments": 38,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085330",
"id": 48085330,
"score": 57,
"time": 1778430711,
"title": "Spain just became one of Europe's cheapest power markets. Here is how",
"url": "https://janrosenow.substack.com/p/spain-just-became-one-of-europes"
},
{
"by": "rocketpastsix",
"comments": 16,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48083580",
"id": 48083580,
"score": 39,
"time": 1778417431,
"title": "Show HN: An index of indie web/blog indexes",
"url": "https://theindex.fyi"
},
{
"by": "weinzierl",
"comments": 0,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48053570",
"id": 48053570,
"score": 3,
"time": 1778181442,
"title": "Decoding raw digital photos in Linux (1997)",
"url": "https://dechifro.org/dcraw/"
},
{
"by": "ukd1",
"comments": null,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48083251",
"id": 48083251,
"score": 1,
"time": 1778414411,
"title": "9 Mothers (YC P26) Is Hiring",
"url": "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/9-mothers?utm_source=x8pZ4B3P3Q"
}
],
"success": true
}