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.
limit
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default: 20
Limit
| Name | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
limit |
No | 20 | Limit |
curl https://nordapi.ee/api/v1/news/hackernews/best
curl https://nordapi.ee/api/v1/news/hackernews/best
curl "https://nordapi.ee/api/v1/news/hackernews/best?limit=10"
{
"count": 20,
"data": [
{
"by": "gslin",
"comments": 454,
"id": 48783117,
"score": 798,
"time": 1783146748,
"title": "The bottleneck might be the air in the room",
"url": "https://blog.mikebowler.ca/2026/07/03/co2-and-decision-making/"
},
{
"by": "javxfps",
"comments": 383,
"id": 48786781,
"score": 656,
"time": 1783183510,
"title": "Leaking YouTube creators' private videos",
"url": "https://javoriuski.com/post/youtube"
},
{
"by": "asronline",
"comments": 264,
"id": 48788283,
"score": 627,
"time": 1783194070,
"title": "Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable",
"url": "https://github.com/ammaarreshi/Generals-Mac-iOS-iPad/tree/main"
},
{
"by": "Cider9986",
"comments": 303,
"id": 48786838,
"score": 508,
"time": 1783183886,
"title": "Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)",
"url": "https://software.annas-archive.gl/AnnaArchivist/annas-archive/-/work_items/234"
},
{
"by": "theanonymousone",
"comments": 61,
"id": 48784777,
"score": 489,
"time": 1783166457,
"title": "Explanation of everything you can see in htop/top on Linux (2019)",
"url": "https://peteris.rocks/blog/htop/"
},
{
"by": "nozzlegear",
"comments": 230,
"id": 48790689,
"score": 464,
"time": 1783216863,
"title": "If you're a button, you have one job",
"url": "https://unsung.aresluna.org/if-youre-a-button-you-have-one-job/"
},
{
"by": "tylerdane",
"comments": 201,
"id": 48782435,
"score": 447,
"time": 1783136163,
"title": "Maybe you should learn something",
"url": "https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_135_learn/"
},
{
"by": "ledoge",
"comments": 128,
"id": 48779683,
"score": 419,
"time": 1783111106,
"title": "Espionage Against the European Parliament",
"url": "https://citizenlab.ca/research/member-of-committee-investigating-spyware-hacked-with-pegasus/"
},
{
"by": "programLyrique",
"comments": 102,
"id": 48780801,
"score": 367,
"time": 1783117990,
"title": "Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all",
"url": "https://mistral.ai/news/leanstral-1-5/"
},
{
"by": "latchkey",
"comments": 135,
"id": 48780417,
"score": 354,
"time": 1783115346,
"title": "Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper",
"url": "https://www.wafer.ai/blog/glm52-amd"
},
{
"by": "tosh",
"comments": 95,
"id": 48794446,
"score": 348,
"time": 1783260870,
"title": "Organic Maps",
"url": "https://organicmaps.app/"
},
{
"by": "maille",
"comments": 142,
"id": 48789428,
"score": 341,
"time": 1783201869,
"title": "GPT-5.5 Codex reasoning-token clustering may be leading to degraded performance",
"url": "https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/30364"
},
{
"by": "chatmasta",
"comments": 129,
"id": 48785485,
"score": 311,
"time": 1783173820,
"title": "Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts",
"url": "https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/74066"
},
{
"by": "theanonymousone",
"comments": 78,
"id": 48779454,
"score": 275,
"time": 1783109749,
"title": "SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine",
"url": "https://github.com/searxng/searxng"
},
{
"by": "hhs",
"comments": 116,
"id": 48780870,
"score": 265,
"time": 1783118429,
"title": "Giant trees have no trouble pumping water to top branches: new research",
"url": "https://news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-environment-science-and-economy/giant-trees-have-no-trouble-pumping-water-to-top-branches/"
},
{
"by": "caminanteblanco",
"comments": 43,
"id": 48777832,
"score": 253,
"time": 1783101265,
"title": "Holes",
"url": "https://xkcd.com/3266/large/"
},
{
"by": "stock_toaster",
"comments": 379,
"id": 48781196,
"score": 251,
"time": 1783121075,
"title": "Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming",
"url": "https://katamari64.se/posts/2026/odin-wikipedia/"
},
{
"by": "dabinat",
"comments": 127,
"id": 48791328,
"score": 235,
"time": 1783226768,
"title": "Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix",
"url": "https://ui.shadcn.com/docs/changelog"
},
{
"by": "sensanaty",
"comments": 79,
"id": 48786782,
"score": 234,
"time": 1783183523,
"title": "Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply",
"url": "https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/cheyenne-suspends-data-center-fill-and-flush-and-closed-loop-discharges-after-meta-contractor-contaminated-its-reuse-water-system"
},
{
"by": "theanonymousone",
"comments": 139,
"id": 48777728,
"score": 228,
"time": 1783100770,
"title": "I Wasn't Allowed Prompting ChatGPT During My Chalk Talk: This Is Discrimination (2025)",
"url": "https://inpreparation.substack.com/p/opinion-i-was-not-allowed-to-type"
}
],
"success": true
}