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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": 380,
      "id": 50319510,
      "score": 1404,
      "time": 1793476613,
      "title": "HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN",
      "url": "https://karpathy.bearblog.dev/hacker-tube/"
    },
    {
      "by": "input_sh",
      "comments": 484,
      "id": 50314654,
      "score": 862,
      "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": "dsr_",
      "comments": 17,
      "id": 50302334,
      "score": 658,
      "time": 1793358353,
      "title": "Backdoors in official Claude Code extensions",
      "url": "https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/117528831681803563"
    },
    {
      "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": 423,
      "id": 50303172,
      "score": 580,
      "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": 241,
      "id": 50319143,
      "score": 522,
      "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": "js4ever",
      "comments": 359,
      "id": 50305025,
      "score": 475,
      "time": 1793373031,
      "title": "Northflank Breached",
      "url": "https://status.northflank.com"
    },
    {
      "by": "ecares",
      "comments": 141,
      "id": 50320963,
      "score": 472,
      "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": "bashtoni",
      "comments": 1,
      "id": 50301983,
      "score": 399,
      "time": 1793355771,
      "title": "Claude Code VS Code extension with backdoor released on Cursor marketplace",
      "url": "https://doublepulsar.com/anthropic-hacked-to-deliver-remote-access-trojan-to-claude-developer-laptops-worldwide-1148a92baae2"
    },
    {
      "by": "apress",
      "comments": 227,
      "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/"
    },
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      "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/"
    },
    {
      "by": "pretext",
      "comments": 212,
      "id": 50319358,
      "score": 372,
      "time": 1793475559,
      "title": "Anthropic blocks users for anything touching training larger models",
      "url": "https://twitter.com/jiahaoshao1/status/2116475922190922088"
    },
    {
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      "id": 50312756,
      "score": 343,
      "time": 1793414796,
      "title": "Tell HN: Scribd Breached",
      "url": null
    },
    {
      "by": "armcat",
      "comments": 165,
      "id": 50314699,
      "score": 337,
      "time": 1793442611,
      "title": "Do the math: How we took over ChatGPT accounts",
      "url": "https://www.parameter.ai/labs/we-found-a-gap-at-openai"
    },
    {
      "by": "zlliang",
      "comments": 96,
      "id": 50305573,
      "score": 328,
      "time": 1793375069,
      "title": "The federated code forge",
      "url": "https://tangled.org/blog/forge/"
    },
    {
      "by": "wilbertliu",
      "comments": 242,
      "id": 50313661,
      "score": 326,
      "time": 1793427396,
      "title": "Digital minimalism",
      "url": "https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2026/10/31/digital_minimalism.html"
    },
    {
      "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": "DeepLogin",
      "comments": 184,
      "id": 50314666,
      "score": 322,
      "time": 1793442221,
      "title": "Molly (Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable",
      "url": "https://piefed.world/post/1503394"
    }
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}