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": "justincormack",
"comments": 37,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48642510",
"id": 48642510,
"score": 70,
"time": 1782207575,
"title": "MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control",
"url": "https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/run-isolated-sandboxes-with-full-lifecycle-control-aws-lambda-introduces-microvms/"
},
{
"by": "jonbaer",
"comments": 9,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48648850",
"id": 48648850,
"score": 52,
"time": 1782237894,
"title": "A US military exercise to launch a satellite on short notice",
"url": "https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/06/a-us-military-exercise-in-space-got-underway-with-barely-anyone-noticing/"
},
{
"by": "rossant",
"comments": 30,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48685558",
"id": 48685558,
"score": 106,
"time": 1782474671,
"title": "Ultrasound imaging of the brain",
"url": "https://alephneuro.com/blog/ultrasound-brain"
},
{
"by": "adchurch",
"comments": 0,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48688700",
"id": 48688700,
"score": 11,
"time": 1782492011,
"title": "Show HN: Smart model routing directly in Claude, Codex and Cursor",
"url": "https://github.com/workweave/router"
},
{
"by": "mrbn100ful",
"comments": 90,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48687272",
"id": 48687272,
"score": 146,
"time": 1782485160,
"title": "Jolla Phone (October 2026)",
"url": "https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-october-2026"
},
{
"by": "ashlleymo",
"comments": null,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48688961",
"id": 48688961,
"score": 1,
"time": 1782493243,
"title": "Liva AI (YC S25) Is Hiring",
"url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/liva-ai/jobs/gvtc3Ep-founding-operations-lead"
},
{
"by": "minimaxir",
"comments": 135,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48678852",
"id": 48678852,
"score": 1170,
"time": 1782419617,
"title": "Om Malik has died",
"url": "https://om.co/2026/06/24/1966-2026/"
},
{
"by": "verditelabs",
"comments": 331,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48675179",
"id": 48675179,
"score": 1530,
"time": 1782402487,
"title": "An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time",
"url": "https://scrollprize.org/firstscroll"
},
{
"by": "adharmad",
"comments": 101,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48686834",
"id": 48686834,
"score": 219,
"time": 1782483026,
"title": "Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck",
"url": "https://www.science.org/content/article/why-have-papers-one-history-s-most-famous-physicists-been-retracted"
},
{
"by": "mooreds",
"comments": 62,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48686093",
"id": 48686093,
"score": 350,
"time": 1782478687,
"title": "Incident CVE-2026-LGTM",
"url": "https://nesbitt.io/2026/06/26/incident-report-cve-2026-lgtm.html"
},
{
"by": "luu",
"comments": 40,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48681949",
"id": 48681949,
"score": 247,
"time": 1782443562,
"title": "Libre Barcode Project",
"url": "https://graphicore.github.io/librebarcode/"
},
{
"by": "amichail",
"comments": 9,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48637433",
"id": 48637433,
"score": 82,
"time": 1782168228,
"title": "Bipartite Matching Is in NC",
"url": "https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9851"
},
{
"by": "Alupis",
"comments": 156,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48681220",
"id": 48681220,
"score": 277,
"time": 1782436252,
"title": "Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity",
"url": "https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/framework-10g-ethernet-module-usb-c-complexity/"
},
{
"by": "cuchoi",
"comments": 129,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48681687",
"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/"
},
{
"by": "thunderbong",
"comments": 54,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48610137",
"id": 48610137,
"score": 188,
"time": 1781970637,
"title": "22-year-old Mozart's handwritten notebook unearthed in 'major discovery'",
"url": "https://www.classicfm.com/composers/mozart/handwritten-notebook-discovered-major-paris/"
},
{
"by": "ddecoene",
"comments": 12,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48656986",
"id": 48656986,
"score": 48,
"time": 1782290776,
"title": "Show HN: WebBase-III – dBASE III rebuilt in the browser with its own interpreter",
"url": "https://github.com/DDecoene/WebBaseIII"
},
{
"by": "birdculture",
"comments": 6,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48653338",
"id": 48653338,
"score": 46,
"time": 1782259061,
"title": "FEXPRs vs. vtable: how LispE interpreter works",
"url": "https://github.com/naver/lispe/wiki/2.7-FEXPR-vs.-vtable"
},
{
"by": "BrunoBernardino",
"comments": 36,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48687903",
"id": 48687903,
"score": 50,
"time": 1782488123,
"title": "The Exhaustion of Talking to a Tool",
"url": "https://ohadravid.github.io/posts/2026-06-tool-talking/"
},
{
"by": "exploraz",
"comments": 67,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48642474",
"id": 48642474,
"score": 310,
"time": 1782207326,
"title": "A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events",
"url": "https://github.com/plbrault/youre-the-os"
},
{
"by": "bilsbie",
"comments": 496,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48679608",
"id": 48679608,
"score": 970,
"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"
}
],
"success": true
}