Hacker News front page

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The 20 stories on the Hacker News front page, with their points and comment counts, and how the points are spread.

A snapshot, not a live feed. These values are what the source returned at 2026-09-30 06:36 UTC. Run the calls below now and the numbers will differ.

Stories
20
Most points
875
Median points
216
Fewest points
77
Median comments
107
Stories per points range0-99 points: 20-99 points2100-249 points: 10100-249 points10250-499 points: 6250-499 points6500-999 points: 2500-999 points21000+ points: 01000+ points0
How many front-page stories fall in each fixed points range.

The data

#StoryPointsCommentsBy
1GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price875794crorella
2Dots: Always-on agents547405alvis
3America.gov493413plesiv
4How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent490278rbanffy
5Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?470198bryan0
6PS5 Relapse Exploit273161therepanic
7Phyllotaxis: An audio-reactive LED display27345evakhoury
8Tcl/Tk 9.1262107dmux
9A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work23748amortize
10Ask HN: What are you reading?226483dan-bailey
11U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels206122ilamont
12Show HN: Real-time Solar System with 526k asteroids and all tracked satellites19044wanick
13Backblaze drive stats for Q2 202615535HieronymusBosch
14Vermont replacing power plants with home batteries146118devonnull
15We’re forgetting what darkness feels like13071pseudolus
16NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates12770rossant
17NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart116107ilamont
18Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux11678bketelsen
19Language models for text classification: From bag-of-words to Jev782Anon84
20Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability7792ciconia

Method. Points are engagement.likes as mapped from the source. Bins are fixed (0-99, 100-249, 250-499, 500-999, 1000+), not fitted to the data. A value shown as “unknown” was null in the response.

The calls used

RequestHTTPFetched (UTC)Price
GET /v1/hackernews/front_page2002026-09-30 06:36 UTC (from cache)5 credits

Reproducing this costs 5 credits at list price: each call is charged at its endpoint’s flat price, and a call served from cache is free (see credits and pricing). Snapshot built 2026-09-30 06:37 UTC by scripts/build-data-snapshots.mjs, one call at a time.

Reproduce this

curl -s "https://api.onekey.dev/v1/hackernews/front_page" \
  -H "x-api-key: $ONEKEY_KEY"

You need an API key (get one free). The response for each call has the shape described in Response format; the rows above are read from data.

Cite this

Onekey data snapshot, “Hacker News front page”, as of 2026-09-30 06:36 UTC. https://onekey.dev/data/hacker-news-front-page

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