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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

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  "count": 20,
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      "by": "Philpax",
      "comments": 1743,
      "id": 48463808,
      "score": 2255,
      "time": 1781024281,
      "title": "Claude Fable 5",
      "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5"
    },
    {
      "by": "lizhang",
      "comments": 205,
      "id": 48445554,
      "score": 1140,
      "time": 1780927516,
      "title": "Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes",
      "url": "https://vorpus.github.io/performativeUI/"
    },
    {
      "by": "sklopec",
      "comments": 147,
      "id": 48459294,
      "score": 870,
      "time": 1781001974,
      "title": "Making Graphics Like it's 1993",
      "url": "https://staniks.github.io/articles/catlantean-3d-blog-1/"
    },
    {
      "by": "mips_avatar",
      "comments": 404,
      "id": 48467896,
      "score": 828,
      "time": 1781039951,
      "title": "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know",
      "url": "https://jonready.com/blog/posts/claude-fable5-is-allowed-to-sabotage-your-app-if-youre-a-competitor.html"
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      "by": "timsneath",
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      "id": 48469658,
      "score": 783,
      "time": 1781051341,
      "title": "macOS Container Machines",
      "url": "https://github.com/apple/container/blob/main/docs/container-machine.md"
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      "title": "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models",
      "url": "https://www.macrumors.com/2026/06/08/apple-reveals-new-ai-architecture/"
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      "title": "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab",
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      "title": "Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]",
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      "title": "CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs",
      "url": "https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/09/ceos-who-think-ai-replaces-their-employees-are-just-bad-ceos/"
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      "title": "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds",
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      "title": "Siri AI",
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      "title": "Stop the Apple Music app from launching",
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      "title": "AI is slowing down",
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      "title": "MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second",
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      "title": "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews",
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      "title": "Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers",
      "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/08/microsofts-open-source-tools-were-hacked-to-steal-passwords-of-ai-developers/"
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      "title": "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs",
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      "title": "EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices",
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      "title": "Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers",
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      "title": "Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'",
      "url": "https://www.yacnews.com/albania-is-not-for-sale-kushners-4-billion-resort-triggers-flamingo-revolution-asset-freeze-and-an-eu-warning/"
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