Tech Headlines

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Live data

Top, new, best, Ask and Show stories from Hacker News.

GET/api/v1/news/tech

Data source

Hacker News APIY Combinator · unknown · updates Real-time

Query parameters

Parameter	Description	Try value
`feed` string	top \| new \| best \| ask \| show
`limit` number	1–30 (default 15)
`apikey` string required	Your API key. Can also be sent as the `X-API-Key` header.	demo key used here

Response envelope

Success: { data, meta: { sources, fetchedAt, cached } }. Errors: { error: { code, message } } with HTTP 400, 401, 404, 502, 503 or 504.

curl "https://api.sectorapi.com/api/v1/news/tech?feed=top&limit=10&apikey=YOUR_API_KEY"

Calls the live source

Example response

{
  "data": {
    "feed": "top",
    "count": 10,
    "stories": [
      {
        "id": 50189232,
        "title": "mitmproxy adds --emudhra option",
        "url": "https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy/commit/169234499088fc2c414644a67efaed3d64ae2e3b",
        "domain": "github.com",
        "points": 258,
        "comments": 66,
        "by": "ahlCVA",
        "postedAt": "2026-10-21T23:51:37.000Z",
        "discussion": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50189232"
      },
      {
        "id": 50188948,
        "title": "There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability",
        "url": "https://eliastaylor.com/noexploit/",
        "domain": "eliastaylor.com",
        "points": 211,
        "comments": 96,
        "by": "zkldi",
        "postedAt": "2026-10-21T23:13:27.000Z",
        "discussion": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50188948"
      },
      {
        "id": 50188228,
        "title": "Security Disclosure",
        "url": "https://blog.railway.com/p/security-disclosure-wednesday-october-21st",
        "domain": "blog.railway.com",
        "points": 336,
        "comments": 177,
        "by": "passenger",
        "postedAt": "2026-10-21T21:58:03.000Z",
        "discussion": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50188228"
      }
    ]
  }
}