Hacker News research
$0.0050 per callSearch
Search public Hacker News stories, comments, jobs and polls with bounded time, type and sort filters.
Hacker News
Hacker News API
Retrieve public Hacker News stories, comments and user records for topic research.
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Hacker News research
$0.0050 per callThread
Retrieve one public Hacker News item with a bounded nested comment tree and explicit truncation state.
Hacker News
Hacker News research
$0.0050 per callUser Profile
Retrieve one public Hacker News username with karma, plain-text bio and canonical profile link.
Hacker News
Learn more about Hacker News research
Tell your agent whether you need stories, comments, users or a discussion around a specific topic. It can preserve thread context and source identity instead of reducing conversations to isolated quotes.
Frame the technical question
Describe the product decision, pain point, launch or technical claim you want to investigate and the useful time period. Give known stories, authors or terms as seeds, then let the agent discover the relevant submissions and complete discussions.
What can Hacker News research reveal?
Threads can reveal practitioner concerns, technical arguments, launch reactions and source links. Visibility reflects timing and community voting, so it should not be treated as representative market sentiment.
Keep comments attached to their thread
Ask the agent to retain story and comment links, parent context and timestamps, identify disagreement and distinguish firsthand evidence from speculation.
Example prompt
This prompt uses threads as contextual technical evidence.
Example prompt to give your agent
Use Scrollport's Hacker News research capability to investigate discussions about [TOPIC] between [DATES]. Include relevant stories and comment threads with source links and context, identify recurring technical claims and credible disagreement, and state the sampling and community limitations. Show me the price before the paid run.