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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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      "id": 49525378,
      "score": 1374,
      "time": 1788285233,
      "title": "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1",
      "url": "https://www.anthropic.com/claude-fable-and-mythos-5-1"
    },
    {
      "by": "speckx",
      "comments": 509,
      "id": 49527748,
      "score": 935,
      "time": 1788294651,
      "title": "Hang on to Your Firefox",
      "url": "https://www.newsonaut.com/articles/hang-on-to-your-firefox"
    },
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      "id": 49520022,
      "score": 908,
      "time": 1788257462,
      "title": "AnkiDroid: Google Play no longer allowing Open Collective donation link",
      "url": "https://github.com/ankidroid/Anki-Android/issues/21656"
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      "id": 49526069,
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      "time": 1788287715,
      "title": "How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?",
      "url": "https://danluu.com/zitron/"
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      "title": "Fastpotify",
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      "title": "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber",
      "url": "https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/3-8-flash-and-3-8-flash-cyber/"
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      "title": "A note on subscription prices from LWN",
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      "title": "Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS",
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      "title": "FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses",
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