Hacker News

Hacker News is a social news website centered around entrepreneurship and computer science. Ingest Hacker News stories, comments, and profiles into Databar for research, monitoring, dashboards, and data pipelines without manual scraping.

Key capabilities

• Live access to top Hacker News content - fetch the top 500 new stories and up to 200 items for Ask HN, Show HN, and Job HN lists.
• Multiple endpoints - use 7 endpoints to retrieve stories by ID, list Ask/Show/Job story IDs, and fetch recently changed items and user profiles.
• Efficient aggregation - filter, enrich, and combine Hacker News items with other data sources inside Databar for reporting and analysis.

Common use cases

• Content teams - surface trending posts and Show HN projects for curation and outreach.
• Market research - track top discussions and signals across developer and startup communities.
• Recruiting - monitor Job HN listings to spot hiring trends and active opportunities.
• Analytics and alerts - build dashboards and triggers that react to emerging conversations and changes.