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.
limit
optional
default: 20
Limit
| Name | Required | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
limit |
No | 20 | Limit |
curl https://nordapi.ee/api/v1/news/hackernews/top
curl https://nordapi.ee/api/v1/news/hackernews/top
curl "https://nordapi.ee/api/v1/news/hackernews/top?limit=5"
curl "https://nordapi.ee/api/v1/news/hackernews/top?limit=50"
{
"count": 20,
"data": [
{
"by": "bvaldivielso",
"comments": 236,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541256",
"id": 49541256,
"score": 340,
"time": 1788377704,
"title": "Muse Spark 1.3",
"url": "https://developer.meta.com/ai/models/muse-spark/"
},
{
"by": "stikit",
"comments": 24,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49543841",
"id": 49543841,
"score": 45,
"time": 1788390527,
"title": "METR Report on OpenAI / Hugging Face Hacking Incident",
"url": "https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/#core-takeaways-about-this-incident"
},
{
"by": "bratao",
"comments": 472,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537553",
"id": 49537553,
"score": 795,
"time": 1788361960,
"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/"
},
{
"by": "donohoe",
"comments": 141,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49537131",
"id": 49537131,
"score": 233,
"time": 1788360376,
"title": "Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business",
"url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/technology/google-ad-tech-remedies.html"
},
{
"by": "yakkomajuri",
"comments": 25,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49543007",
"id": 49543007,
"score": 60,
"time": 1788385593,
"title": "Uber shuts operations in Nigeria and Uganda with immediate effect",
"url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86xpv8l9y9o"
},
{
"by": "surreal_",
"comments": 43,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541458",
"id": 49541458,
"score": 124,
"time": 1788378541,
"title": "Fable 5.1 World Modeling",
"url": "https://github.com/PhiloLabs/fable51-worlds"
},
{
"by": "carlos-menezes",
"comments": 11,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508608",
"id": 49508608,
"score": 77,
"time": 1788177665,
"title": "Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex",
"url": "https://werwolv.net/posts/file_format_reverse_engineering/"
},
{
"by": "lloydarmbrust",
"comments": 14,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49543530",
"id": 49543530,
"score": 11,
"time": 1788388564,
"title": "Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) – Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s",
"url": "https://ronanrx.com/"
},
{
"by": "ColinWright",
"comments": 0,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508405",
"id": 49508405,
"score": 23,
"time": 1788175784,
"title": "Holden's Lightning Flight",
"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden%27s_Lightning_flight"
},
{
"by": "jakobgreenfeld",
"comments": 127,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536375",
"id": 49536375,
"score": 286,
"time": 1788357599,
"title": "Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them",
"url": "https://trellner.com/reports/manufactured-sources-behind-ai-recommendations/"
},
{
"by": "teekert",
"comments": 155,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49535284",
"id": 49535284,
"score": 359,
"time": 1788352239,
"title": "Can I opt out of my input or output data being used for training?",
"url": "https://help.mistral.ai/en/articles/455207-can-i-opt-out-of-my-input-or-output-data-being-used-for-training"
},
{
"by": "bastienbeurier",
"comments": null,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49542486",
"id": 49542486,
"score": 1,
"time": 1788382804,
"title": "Nango (YC W23) is hiring across eng, product and GTM (SF and remote)",
"url": "https://nango.dev/careers"
},
{
"by": "Curiositry",
"comments": 66,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49517018",
"id": 49517018,
"score": 129,
"time": 1788227398,
"title": "Wendell Berry has died",
"url": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/us/wendell-berry-dead.html"
},
{
"by": "herobird",
"comments": 0,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49521031",
"id": 49521031,
"score": 29,
"time": 1788265513,
"title": "Engineering of the fastest WebAssembly interpreters",
"url": "https://wasmi-labs.github.io/blog/posts/wasmi-v2.0/"
},
{
"by": "ddp26",
"comments": 2,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49543191",
"id": 49543191,
"score": 17,
"time": 1788386550,
"title": "Reasons robotics is hard",
"url": "https://secondthoughts.ai/p/14-reasons-robotics-is-hard"
},
{
"by": "Eridanus2",
"comments": 12,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49541754",
"id": 49541754,
"score": 37,
"time": 1788379702,
"title": "Altair Basic Interpreter Source Code (1975) [pdf]",
"url": "https://images.gatesnotes.com/12514eb8-7b51-008e-41a9-512542cf683b/34d561c8-cf5c-4e69-af47-3782ea11482e/Original-Microsoft-Source-Code.pdf"
},
{
"by": "gumby",
"comments": 39,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49540565",
"id": 49540565,
"score": 72,
"time": 1788374561,
"title": "Qantas Airbus A380 engine failure in 2010 (2023)",
"url": "https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/a-matter-of-millimeters-the-story-of-qantas-flight-32-bdaa62dc98e7"
},
{
"by": "randycupertino",
"comments": 78,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536079",
"id": 49536079,
"score": 238,
"time": 1788356429,
"title": "Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle",
"url": "https://www.science.org/content/article/world-s-biggest-dark-matter-detector-spots-single-weird-particle"
},
{
"by": "mdp2021",
"comments": 88,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49535548",
"id": 49535548,
"score": 198,
"time": 1788353949,
"title": "Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them",
"url": "https://studyfinds.com/aging-brains-blend-memories-together-instead-of-forgetting-them-study-finds/"
},
{
"by": "giuliomagnifico",
"comments": 171,
"hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49533497",
"id": 49533497,
"score": 324,
"time": 1788338203,
"title": "Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982",
"url": "https://dfarq.homeip.net/commodore-64-released-september-1-1982/"
}
],
"success": true
}