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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": "firloop",
      "comments": 815,
      "id": 47633396,
      "score": 1067,
      "time": 1775256924,
      "title": "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw",
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "by": "andsoitis",
      "comments": 364,
      "id": 47631118,
      "score": 1054,
      "time": 1775244902,
      "title": "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth",
      "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8jzr423p9o"
    },
    {
      "by": "Jaso1024",
      "comments": 174,
      "id": 47640728,
      "score": 879,
      "time": 1775321154,
      "title": "Show HN: A game where you build a GPU",
      "url": "https://jaso1024.com/mvidia/"
    },
    {
      "by": "macleginn",
      "comments": 536,
      "id": 47639524,
      "score": 827,
      "time": 1775314106,
      "title": "Author of \"Careless People\" banned from saying anything negative about Meta",
      "url": "https://www.thetimes.com/uk/technology-uk/article/sarah-wynn-williams-careless-people-meta-nrffdfpmf"
    },
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      "by": "gpi",
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      "id": 47642569,
      "score": 774,
      "time": 1775331583,
      "title": "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?",
      "url": "https://teybannerman.com/strategy/2026/03/31/how-many-microsoft-copilot-are-there.html"
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      "by": "zaikunzhang",
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      "time": 1775383045,
      "title": "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing",
      "url": "https://ergosphere.blog/posts/the-machines-are-fine/"
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      "by": "Anon84",
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      "id": 47637757,
      "score": 631,
      "time": 1775298381,
      "title": "Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation",
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01193"
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      "by": "detaro",
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      "score": 540,
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      "title": "The FAA’s flight restriction for drones is an attempt to criminalize filming ICE",
      "url": "https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/faas-temporary-flight-restriction-drones-blatant-attempt-criminalize-filming-ice"
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      "by": "tosh",
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      "title": "Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick",
      "url": "https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman"
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      "by": "DyslexicAtheist",
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      "title": "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function",
      "url": "https://bmi.usercontent.opencode.de/eudi-wallet/wallet-development-documentation-public/latest/architecture-concept/06-mobile-devices/02-mdvm/"
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      "title": "Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs",
      "url": "https://nationaltoday.com/us/tx/austin/news/2026/04/03/oracle-files-thousands-of-h-1b-visa-petitions-amid-mass-layoffs/"
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      "title": "Delve removed from Y Combinator",
      "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/delve"
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      "title": "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs",
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      "title": "Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years",
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      "title": "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad",
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      "title": "Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI",
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      "title": "AWS engineer reports PostgreSQL perf halved by Linux 7.0, fix may not be easy",
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      "title": "Someone at BrowserStack is leaking users' email addresses",
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      "title": "Some Unusual Trees",
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