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": "trwhite",
"comments": 41,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946393",
"id": 49946393,
"score": 131,
"time": 1791050805,
"title": "Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields",
"url": "https://notoriousbfg.com/hole-punch/"
},
{
"by": "saikatsg",
"comments": 33,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946567",
"id": 49946567,
"score": 79,
"time": 1791052170,
"title": "Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code",
"url": "https://claude.dev/blog/getting-the-most-out-of-opus-5-5/"
},
{
"by": "gscott",
"comments": 19,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49923873",
"id": 49923873,
"score": 89,
"time": 1790872360,
"title": "Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager",
"url": "https://www.whec.com/top-news/webster-man-celebrating-the-100th-birthday-of-the-kidney-his-mom-donated-to-him-as-a-teenager/"
},
{
"by": "geoffbp",
"comments": 61,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49947051",
"id": 49947051,
"score": 67,
"time": 1791055996,
"title": "We want you to build the next Git platform on Cloudflare",
"url": "https://blog.cloudflare.com/next-git-platform-on-cloudflare/"
},
{
"by": "bastitx",
"comments": 273,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49942706",
"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": "edverma2",
"comments": 23,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937304",
"id": 49937304,
"score": 55,
"time": 1790968238,
"title": "Show HN: Pi pod โ Run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server",
"url": "https://pipod.dev/"
},
{
"by": "romac",
"comments": 54,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49944912",
"id": 49944912,
"score": 131,
"time": 1791039756,
"title": "FTL: A new operating system for clouds",
"url": "https://ftl-os.org/"
},
{
"by": "KomoD",
"comments": 3,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946845",
"id": 49946845,
"score": 23,
"time": 1791054565,
"title": "RSS Feed Best Practices (2022)",
"url": "https://kevincox.ca/2022/05/06/rss-feed-best-practices/"
},
{
"by": "elffjs",
"comments": 25,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946076",
"id": 49946076,
"score": 45,
"time": 1791048200,
"title": "Vx โ One Language, Every Chip",
"url": "https://vxlang.org/"
},
{
"by": "simonjgreen",
"comments": 1,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49947472",
"id": 49947472,
"score": 10,
"time": 1791059264,
"title": "Surely you have ultra-wideband radios on your bins too?",
"url": "https://sjg.io/writing/binrange-have-you-actually-put-the-bins-out/"
},
{
"by": "NaOH",
"comments": 19,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49938399",
"id": 49938399,
"score": 114,
"time": 1790973878,
"title": "Woking Electrical Control Room (2016)",
"url": "http://www.darbiansphotography.com/woking-electrical-control-room-urbex"
},
{
"by": "rramadass",
"comments": 25,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49928361",
"id": 49928361,
"score": 126,
"time": 1790898816,
"title": "C++ Insights โ See your source code with the eyes of a Compiler",
"url": "https://github.com/andreasfertig/cppinsights"
},
{
"by": "azhenley",
"comments": 125,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49940394",
"id": 49940394,
"score": 425,
"time": 1790988925,
"title": "Newgrounds.com โ A community of games, music, and art",
"url": "https://www.newgrounds.com/"
},
{
"by": "mondainx",
"comments": 9,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49923602",
"id": 49923602,
"score": 31,
"time": 1790871091,
"title": "MPEG-2 Transport Streams and MOQ: Yes, MPEG-TS Is Still Relevant Today",
"url": "https://www.red5.net/blog/mpeg-2-transport-streams-and-moq-yes-mpeg-ts-is-still-relevant-today/"
},
{
"by": "kcmarr",
"comments": 6,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49927295",
"id": 49927295,
"score": 20,
"time": 1790890192,
"title": "Show HN: Graphene โ Data analysis toolkit for your coding agent",
"url": "https://github.com/graphene-data/graphene"
},
{
"by": "sarah74",
"comments": null,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49945904",
"id": 49945904,
"score": 1,
"time": 1791046812,
"title": "RetailReady (YC W24) Is Hiring",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/retailready/jobs/bFcgIe4-implementations"
},
{
"by": "nor-and-or-not",
"comments": 23,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49931993",
"id": 49931993,
"score": 59,
"time": 1790937631,
"title": "Show HN: Our space game has a built-in RISC-V emulator that runs Linux",
"url": "https://againstallodds.games/blog/2026/10/03/our-risc-v-emulator-pasriscv/"
},
{
"by": "eatitraw",
"comments": 35,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946873",
"id": 49946873,
"score": 55,
"time": 1791054747,
"title": "Our AI Midwife",
"url": "https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/our-ai-midwife"
},
{
"by": "surprisetalk",
"comments": 11,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49934261",
"id": 49934261,
"score": 40,
"time": 1790953203,
"title": "Holes (1996-2025)",
"url": "https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/holes/"
},
{
"by": "CoryOndrejka",
"comments": 157,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49925184",
"id": 49925184,
"score": 645,
"time": 1790878818,
"title": "Mike Tomlin spent 12 years building a Minecraft city",
"url": "https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7648198/2026/10/01/mike-tomlin-minecraft-nfl-coach/"
}
],
"success": true
}