Track Tech Trends Before They Go Mainstream — Hacker News Data Extraction

Hacker News is where tech trends start before they hit mainstream. Tracking what gets upvoted, discussed, and debated on HN gives you an early signal on: Emerging technologies (what developers are excited about) Startup launches (Show HN posts with traction) Industry shifts (what's being criticized or praised) Hiring trends (who's hiring, who's laying off) Two APIs, Zero Authentication HN exposes two clean APIs: 1. Firebase API — official, real-time https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/{id}.json 2. Algolia Search API — full-text search with filters https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query=web+scraping&tags=story Both are free. No API key. No rate limit anxiety. What You Can Extract Each story gives you: { "title" : "Show HN: I built a market research tool" , "url" : "https://example.com" , "author" : "startup_dev" , "points" : 342 , "comments" : 89 , "created_at" : "2026-03-20T14:00:00Z" , "tags" : [ "show_hn" , "story" ] }