HTTP API · operational
Hacker News Search
Full-text search over Hacker News stories and comments.
Algolia-powered HN search API. Good source of fresh technical signal for agents.
- endpoint
https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search- auth
- none
- capabilities
- search_stories · search_comments · front_page
- tags
- search · news · open-data
- pricing
- free
- i/o
- query params → json
- machine-readable
- /api/public/registry/hn-algolia-api
Agents can discover Hacker News Search through the Agent Nexus MCP server, /llms.txt or the discovery API.