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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": "karpathy",
      "comments": 402,
      "id": 50319510,
      "score": 1493,
      "time": 1793476613,
      "title": "HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN",
      "url": "https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/hacker-tube/"
    },
    {
      "by": "input_sh",
      "comments": 485,
      "id": 50314654,
      "score": 871,
      "time": 1793442090,
      "title": "Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament",
      "url": "https://www.science.org/content/article/serbia-just-elected-world-s-brainiest-parliament"
    },
    {
      "by": "DeepLogin",
      "comments": 522,
      "id": 50302814,
      "score": 661,
      "time": 1793362080,
      "title": "US Reps Lead Democratic Resolution Opposing A.I. Bubble Bailout for Big Tech",
      "url": "https://progressives.house.gov/2026/10/reps-casar-waters-lead-democratic-resolution-opposing-a-i-bubble-bailout-for-big-tech-commit-to-protecting-american-people-instead"
    },
    {
      "by": "dorianniemiec",
      "comments": 476,
      "id": 50305693,
      "score": 655,
      "time": 1793375538,
      "title": "AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them",
      "url": "https://newsletter.signoz.io/p/ai-isnt-replacing-sres-its-deskilling"
    },
    {
      "by": "domhudson",
      "comments": 425,
      "id": 50303172,
      "score": 582,
      "time": 1793364601,
      "title": "The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes",
      "url": "https://www.wired.com/story/the-dollar63-billion-binance-hack-was-pulled-off-in-just-20-minutes/"
    },
    {
      "by": "oger",
      "comments": 255,
      "id": 50319143,
      "score": 552,
      "time": 1793474190,
      "title": "TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8",
      "url": "https://atlasum.net/blog/cve-2026-98432-linux-ipv4-tcp-uaf"
    },
    {
      "by": "ecares",
      "comments": 163,
      "id": 50320963,
      "score": 523,
      "time": 1793486466,
      "title": "An Italian farmer found some unknown seeds in his attic and planted them",
      "url": "https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/italian-farmer-found-unknown-seeds-attic-with-nothing-lose-planted-them-result-biblical-180989644/"
    },
    {
      "by": "js4ever",
      "comments": 359,
      "id": 50305025,
      "score": 475,
      "time": 1793373031,
      "title": "Northflank Breached",
      "url": "https://status.northflank.com"
    },
    {
      "by": "pretext",
      "comments": 222,
      "id": 50319358,
      "score": 392,
      "time": 1793475559,
      "title": "Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models",
      "url": "https://twitter.com/jiahaoshao1/status/2116475922190922088"
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      "by": "apress",
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      "id": 50309647,
      "score": 382,
      "time": 1793391810,
      "title": "Through Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart taught us the measure of a man",
      "url": "https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/29/metro/patrick-stewart-picard-star-trek-the-next-generation/"
    },
    {
      "by": "nanna",
      "comments": 54,
      "id": 50305637,
      "score": 377,
      "time": 1793375292,
      "title": "Florilegium: Procedural Flowers in LaTeX",
      "url": "https://github.com/kevinraymond/florilegium"
    },
    {
      "by": "DHowett",
      "comments": 110,
      "id": 50307190,
      "score": 374,
      "time": 1793381115,
      "title": "My favourite PowerMac is a Nintendo Wii",
      "url": "https://virtuallyfun.com/2026/10/29/my-favourite-powermac-is-a-nintendo-wii/"
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    {
      "by": "armcat",
      "comments": 168,
      "id": 50314699,
      "score": 344,
      "time": 1793442611,
      "title": "Do the math: How we took over ChatGPT accounts",
      "url": "https://www.parameter.ai/labs/we-found-a-gap-at-openai"
    },
    {
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      "id": 50312756,
      "score": 344,
      "time": 1793414796,
      "title": "Tell HN: Scribd Breached",
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      "by": "wilbertliu",
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      "id": 50313661,
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      "time": 1793427396,
      "title": "Digital minimalism",
      "url": "https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2026/10/31/digital_minimalism.html"
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    {
      "by": "zlliang",
      "comments": 96,
      "id": 50305573,
      "score": 328,
      "time": 1793375069,
      "title": "The federated code forge",
      "url": "https://tangled.org/blog/forge/"
    },
    {
      "by": "DeepLogin",
      "comments": 185,
      "id": 50314666,
      "score": 324,
      "time": 1793442221,
      "title": "Molly (Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable",
      "url": "https://piefed.world/post/1503394"
    },
    {
      "by": "petethomas",
      "comments": 290,
      "id": 50307219,
      "score": 323,
      "time": 1793381245,
      "title": "Anthropic may not secure investment-grade rating after IPO, Blackstone says",
      "url": "https://www.ft.com/content/59383c7f-8d82-493f-bf01-d2e862a1018f"
    },
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      "by": "taubek",
      "comments": 382,
      "id": 50304122,
      "score": 308,
      "time": 1793369300,
      "title": "Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite legacy code",
      "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/10/30/cisco-president-jeetu-patel-gen-z-27-year-old-unlimited-ai-tokens-rewrite-legacy-code-entry-level-jobs/"
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      "by": "brandonb",
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      "id": 50304419,
      "score": 305,
      "time": 1793370464,
      "title": "Medicare Will Pay $50k for Your Heart Attack. It Should Pay $100 to Prevent It",
      "url": "https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/123553?trw=no"
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  "success": true
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