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Hacker News setup
Searched directly for fresh, relevant stories.
No key needed
Updated
Free tier
Algolia's HN Search API is free to use and needs no key.checked September 2026
Larvabot's cap
Nothing to cap: rate limits just hand the job to the next provider.Fallback position
#1 of 8 for conversations. See the orderWhat it does
Hacker News search is powered by Algolia's public HN Search API.
- Searching recent stories for each project's community keywords
Get set up
- Nothing required
Where it goes
Nothing to paste into Larvabot. Once the steps above are done, it just works.
Staying free
Nothing to meter. Larvabot only looks at stories from the last 30 days.
How the quota guard works →Fallback order
For conversations, Larvabot tries these in order and skips any that aren't set up, are out of free quota or are busy.
- 1Hacker News search (Algolia)
- 2Stack Exchange API
- 3YouTube comments (Data API)
- 4GitHub issues & discussions
- 5Bluesky search
- 6Lemmy (federated communities)
- 7Discourse forums
- 8Web discussions (your search keys)
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