Hn Top

{
  "kind": "top",
  "returned": 10,
  "source": "Hacker News via Algolia",
  "stories": [
    {
      "author": "meetpateltech",
      "comments": 257,
      "created_at": "2026-10-12T16:48:01Z",
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50059115",
      "points": 482,
      "rank": 1,
      "title": "Muse Wonder",
      "url": "https://research.meta.ai/blog/muse-wonder"
    },
    {
      "author": "whimblepop",
      "comments": 217,
      "created_at": "2026-10-12T18:29:04Z",
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50060694",
      "points": 399,
      "rank": 2,
      "title": "Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default",
      "url": "https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/48195"
    },
    {
      "author": "ilreb",
      "comments": 217,
      "created_at": "2026-10-12T16:11:45Z",
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50058507",
      "points": 380,
      "rank": 3,
      "title": "GLM-Legal",
      "url": "https://z.ai/blog/glm-legal"
    },
    {
      "author": "bwnkl",
      "comments": 391,
      "created_at": "2026-10-12T11:22:24Z",
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50054751",
      "points": 359,
      "rank": 4,
      "title": "QGIS enacts moratorium on AI contributions",
      "url": "https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/pull/387"
    },
    {
      "author": "Zeekaas",
      "comments": 579,
      "created_at": "2026-10-12T12:16:42Z",
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055304",
      "points": 355,
      "rank": 5,
      "title": "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe",
      "url": "https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/unprecedented-cyberattack-cripples-supermarket-fridges-across-europe-as-hackers-activate-automatic-defrosting-delivery-and-store-prices-also-impacted-by-incident"
    },
    {
      "author": "prophittcorey",
      "comments": 150,
      "created_at": "2026-10-12T16:13:10Z",
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50058528",
      "points": 341,
      "rank": 6,
      "title": "A Modern Web App in C",
      "url": "https://prophitt.me/writing/a-modern-web-app-in-c"
    },
    {
      "author": "gumby",
      "comments": 239,
      "created_at": "2026-10-12T17:14:01Z",
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50059523",
      "points": 284,
      "rank": 7,
      "title": "AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software",
      "url": "https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/ai-coding-agents-generate-more-code-but-not-more-software/"
    },
    {
      "author": "deadxwarrior",
      "comments": 138,
      "created_at": "2026-10-12T06:46:53Z",
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50052251",
      "points": 257,
      "rank": 8,
      "title": "Show HN: PS2 games statically recompiled to WebAssembly",
      "url": "https://github.com/snuri00/ps2-web-recomp"
    },
    {
      "author": "scrlk",
      "comments": 285,
      "created_at": "2026-10-12T12:09:09Z",
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50055220",
      "points": 235,
      "rank": 9,
      "title": "Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age",
      "url": "https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c620r33plgppo"
    },
    {
      "author": "lukaslalinsky",
      "comments": 82,
      "created_at": "2026-10-12T05:02:34Z",
      "hn_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50051573",
      "points": 232,
      "rank": 10,
      "title": "Type-safe HTML templating in Zig",
      "url": "https://lalinsky.com/2026/10/11/type-safe-html-templating-in-zig.html"
    }
  ]
}

# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://saylorinnovations.com/api/hn/top?kind=top&limit=10'

# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - 'https://saylorinnovations.com/api/hn/top?kind=top&limit=10' \
  | grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decode

// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

// Pays at most $0.01 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.01" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.01 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsaylorinnovations.com%2Fapi%2Fhn%2Ftop
const res = await pay("https://saylorinnovations.com/api/hn/top?kind=top&limit=10");
console.log(res.status, await res.text());

# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client

# Pays at most $0.01 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.01"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.get("https://saylorinnovations.com/api/hn/top?kind=top&limit=10")
    print(res.status_code, res.text)