Developer signals: Hacker News, npm and PyPI

Hacker News stories matching developer keywords plus npm and PyPI package metadata and download counts.

49 rows, last pulled 2026-10-13 (refreshed weekly). Records dated 2026-07-20 to 2026-10-13 (createdAt).
License: Free to use, source terms apply. These are facts about publicly posted items (jobs, stories, packages). Free to use for analysis; the text of postings belongs to the original publishers, so check the source terms before republishing it.

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Data dictionary

Column

Type

Description

source

string

Source system of the row.

recordType

string

Kind of record in this row.

id

string

Hacker News item id (stories).

title

string

Title or headline of the record.

url

url

Link to the record at the source.

domain

string

Domain of the linked story.

createdAt

datetime

Story creation time (UTC).

points

integer

Hacker News points.

numComments

integer

Comment count.

hnUrl

url

Link to the Hacker News discussion.

kind

string

Story kind, for example showHn.

textSnippet

string

Start of the story text (truncated).

query

string

Search query that surfaced the story.

queryType

string

Type of query.

packageName

string

npm or PyPI package name.

latestVersion

string

Latest published version.

description

string

Free-text description from the source (truncated to 300 characters).

license

string

Declared package license.

homepage

url

Package homepage.

repositoryUrl

url

Source repository URL.

keywords

json-string

JSON list of package keywords.

requiresPython

string

Python version constraint (PyPI).

latestReleaseAt

datetime

Time of the latest release.

downloadsLastDay

integer

Downloads in the last day.

downloadsLastWeek

integer

Downloads in the last week.

downloadsLastMonth

integer

Downloads in the last month.

found

boolean

True when the package was found.

matchedQueries

json-string

JSON list of queries the row matched.

First rows (8 of 28 columns)

source

recordType

title

url

domain

createdAt

points

hackernews

story

50016426

Show HN:APIFlow Studio – Open-source, offline-first Postman

https://apiflowstudio.onrender.com/

apiflowstudio.onrender.com

2026-10-09T05:40:43Z

hackernews

story

49917863

Show HN: Vietnam Tender Intelligence – gov procurement data,

https://apify.com/donerightlabs/tender-intelligence

apify.com

2026-10-01T04:50:24Z

hackernews

story

49800300

I built 13 small Apify Actors this month, mostly AI-grounded

https://apify.com/rumi7911

apify.com

2026-09-22T12:41:09Z

hackernews

story

49563084

Show HN: MCP Security Auditor – Zero-execution static scanne

https://apify.com/neon_innovation_lab/mcp-security-auditor

apify.com

2026-09-04T11:19:48Z

hackernews

story

49290923

I built a lint for AI-generated evidence

https://apify.com/filipmajchrzak/ai-claim-checkpoint

apify.com

2026-08-13T19:40:38Z

License

These are facts about publicly posted items (jobs, stories, packages). Free to use for analysis; the text of postings belongs to the original publishers, so check the source terms before republishing it.

Disclosure: we build and maintain the Apify actors these samples come from. The samples are free; the actors are paid pay-per-event tools. Nothing here is a review or endorsement by a third party.