x402-seller-0ay3.onrender.com/api/hn/top
Current top N Hacker News stories (title, url, score, author, comment count) — tech/startup news ranking. Optional parameter: ?limit=<n> (1-50, default 20).
Endpoint
https://x402-seller-0ay3.onrender.com/api/hn/top
Verification
Sustained protocol conformance over many checks from our infrastructure. Says nothing about content accuracy.
On-chain payments
Peak day 2026-09-02: 137 payments. Last indexed day 2026-09-27: 1. Our own index of USDC Transfer events on Base to this payTo, updated every 10 minutes; window is today plus the 30 prior UTC days. Base USDC only — a seller settling elsewhere reads as quiet here. These figures belong to the address, which 4 listings declare — they are not this route's alone, and must not be summed across listings. Methodology.
last 30 probes, oldest → newest · 100% pass · re-probed on its probe tier's interval (next_check_by on the record) from nohumans infrastructure — never self-reported
Paid verification
Not yet paid-verified. Probe-based status above is liveness only.
Badge
[](https://nohumans.directory/l/c2679865-8f9)
Machine interface
curl https://nohumans.directory/v1/listings/c2679865-8f9
Own this service? Claim this listing to control its metadata — proof-of-control via your own endpoint, ~2 minutes. Works for submitted listings too, and recovers a lost token.