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HN Top Stories

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.

Parameters

limit optional default: 20

Limit

Example Requests

Basic usage
curl https://nordapi.ee/api/v1/news/hackernews/top
Top 20 HN stories (default)
curl https://nordapi.ee/api/v1/news/hackernews/top
Top 5 HN stories
curl "https://nordapi.ee/api/v1/news/hackernews/top?limit=5"
Top 50 HN stories
curl "https://nordapi.ee/api/v1/news/hackernews/top?limit=50"

Live Response

{
  "count": 20,
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      "by": "trwhite",
      "comments": 49,
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946393",
      "id": 49946393,
      "score": 197,
      "time": 1791050805,
      "title": "Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields",
      "url": "https://notoriousbfg.com/hole-punch/"
    },
    {
      "by": "sbulaev",
      "comments": 60,
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49948254",
      "id": 49948254,
      "score": 119,
      "time": 1791065233,
      "title": "Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'",
      "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/03/federal-judge-calls-flock-indiscriminate-mass-surveillance/"
    },
    {
      "by": "CosmoWenman",
      "comments": 15,
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946355",
      "id": 49946355,
      "score": 34,
      "time": 1791050487,
      "title": "Treachery in the Rodin Museum 3D scan verdict",
      "url": "https://cosmowenman.substack.com/p/rodin-museum-3d-scan-verdict"
    },
    {
      "by": "citelao",
      "comments": 14,
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49947631",
      "id": 49947631,
      "score": 42,
      "time": 1791060555,
      "title": "Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked",
      "url": "https://ben.stolovitz.com/posts/reasons-not-emt-ranked/"
    },
    {
      "by": "gscott",
      "comments": 35,
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49923873",
      "id": 49923873,
      "score": 122,
      "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": "speckx",
      "comments": 3,
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946895",
      "id": 49946895,
      "score": 55,
      "time": 1791054888,
      "title": "The work by Valve's Timur Kristóf on improving old AMD GPUs on Linux",
      "url": "https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDC-2026-Valve-Timur-AMDGPU"
    },
    {
      "by": "willmeyers",
      "comments": 3,
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49940877",
      "id": 49940877,
      "score": 27,
      "time": 1790994483,
      "title": "New York City should carefully measure a new tree",
      "url": "https://blog.willmeye.rs/new-york-city-should-carefully-measure-a-new-tree/"
    },
    {
      "by": "saikatsg",
      "comments": 92,
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946567",
      "id": 49946567,
      "score": 137,
      "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": "bastitx",
      "comments": 286,
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49942706",
      "id": 49942706,
      "score": 475,
      "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": "young_mete",
      "comments": 21,
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946526",
      "id": 49946526,
      "score": 19,
      "time": 1791051828,
      "title": "What Meta got right with Muse",
      "url": "https://metedata.substack.com/p/what-meta-got-right-with-muse"
    },
    {
      "by": "Anon84",
      "comments": 24,
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49946228",
      "id": 49946228,
      "score": 49,
      "time": 1791049469,
      "title": "LeCun has \"zero concerns\" about AI wiping out humanity, recent \"rogue\" incidents",
      "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/10/01/ai-godfather-yann-lecun-has-zero-concerns-about-human-extinction-says-anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-is-deuded/"
    },
    {
      "by": "edverma2",
      "comments": 27,
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937304",
      "id": 49937304,
      "score": 68,
      "time": 1790968238,
      "title": "Show HN: Pi pod – Run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server",
      "url": "https://pipod.dev/"
    },
    {
      "by": "geoffbp",
      "comments": 82,
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49947051",
      "id": 49947051,
      "score": 92,
      "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": "jethronethro",
      "comments": 10,
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49948332",
      "id": 49948332,
      "score": 38,
      "time": 1791065893,
      "title": "OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company's culture is 'broken'",
      "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/03/openai-safety-leader-quits-warning-ai-companys-culture-is-broken"
    },
    {
      "by": "romac",
      "comments": 57,
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49944912",
      "id": 49944912,
      "score": 140,
      "time": 1791039756,
      "title": "FTL: A new operating system for clouds",
      "url": "https://ftl-os.org/"
    },
    {
      "by": "xnx",
      "comments": 2,
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49927514",
      "id": 49927514,
      "score": 14,
      "time": 1790891666,
      "title": "Gboard Conveyor Belt Version",
      "url": "https://github.com/google/mozc-devices/tree/main/mozc-conveyorbelt"
    },
    {
      "by": "sans_souse",
      "comments": 0,
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49948438",
      "id": 49948438,
      "score": 38,
      "time": 1791066914,
      "title": "Big Balls Now Exposed to Serious Criminal Charges in at Least Six States",
      "url": "https://medium.com/@carmitage/big-balls-now-exposed-to-serious-criminal-charges-in-at-least-six-states-ca865e1d6305"
    },
    {
      "by": "simonjgreen",
      "comments": 6,
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49947472",
      "id": 49947472,
      "score": 28,
      "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": "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": "Gorsefound",
      "comments": 5,
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49942103",
      "id": 49942103,
      "score": 12,
      "time": 1791012534,
      "title": "Show HN: Thoreau BASIC – What if BASIC hadn't gone out of fashion?",
      "url": "https://thoreaubasic.com/"
    }
  ],
  "success": true
}