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Retrieve a Hacker News user profile by username. Returns karma, creation date, bio, and recent submission IDs. Usernames are case-sensitive.
Full-text search across Hacker News content powered by Algolia. Search stories, comments, Ask HN, Show HN, and jobs. Supports filtering by content type, author, date range, and minimum points. Results can be sorted by relevance or date.
Retrieve a ranked list of Hacker News stories by category. Supports top, new, best, Ask HN, Show HN, and job listings. Returns story IDs with optional full story details. Up to 500 stories are available for top/new/best, and up to 200 for ask/show/job.
Retrieve a Hacker News item by its unique ID. Items include stories, comments, jobs, Ask HN posts, polls, and poll options. Returns the full item data including author, score, text content, URL, and child comment IDs.
Retrieve the full nested comment tree for a Hacker News story in a single request via Algolia. Unlike the Firebase API which requires recursive fetching of each comment, this returns the entire comment hierarchy at once.