Hacker News API on SerenAI X402 Gateway
Details
- External ID
- 46514270
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Hacker News API on SerenAI X402 Gateway
- Website domain
- serendb.com
- Launched
- Jan. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.09617918313570488
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
We added the official Hacker News API to SerenAI's x402 Gateway.AI agents can now query HN stories, comments, and users through the same MCP interface they use for Seren's paid publishers like Firecrawl and Perplexity. We're aiming to deliver greater composability: an agent can pull HN discussions (free), scrape competitor sites with Firecrawl, and get AI analysis from Perplexity, all in one protocol.We built a competitive intelligence example that tracks Show HN launches and competitor mentions across HN.GitHub: https://github.com/serenorg/x402-mcp-server Install: npx @serendb/x402-mcp-server
Enrichment
- Theme
- Hacker News clients, datasets, and tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- hacker news api gateway
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is an API gateway proxy wrapping the public Firebase Hacker News REST API to expose it via the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Discussion
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 38 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #39 of 39 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 45 days after the earliest competitor.
- WingNews · hn · 2026-03-06 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI · hn · 2026-02-20 · 265 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Trader News · hn · 2026-09-24 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Hack · hn · 2026-09-22 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Hacker News Search · ph · 2026-09-22 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Hacker Smacker · hn · 2026-02-24 · 148 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Hacker Atlas · hn · 2026-09-25 · 86 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- Most Penalized HN Stories · hn · 2026-09-13 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.36
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