Hacker News: the developer pulse as a flat table

Hacker News is the closest thing tech has to a shared signal — what's trending, what's shipping, what the community is arguing about. Its Algolia-backed API is keyless and fast, and the niche is wide open: the leading store actors currently have only a handful of users each.

The Hacker News Scraper wraps it with search plus the front_page, new, best, ask and show feeds.

{ "query": "AI", "feedType": "search", "sortBy": "relevance", "maxResults": 30 }

Every story comes back with its points, comment count, author, URL and timestamp:

{
  "object_id": "49537553",
  "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/",
  "author": "bratao",
  "created_at": "2026-09-02T15:12:40Z",
  "points": "1055", "num_comments": "593"
}

Why this over the website

The site gives you one page at a time. This gives you a queryable, sortable feed — pull the front page every hour to track what's rising, or run a keyword search to watch a topic (AGI, Rust, whatever) over time.

Use it for

Trend tracking and market sensing for products, content and newsletter research, or keeping a pulse on when a topic spikes. Points and comment counts let you rank "what the community actually cares about" rather than what simply posted.