Hacker News

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Category: News · Auth: none · Status today: OK (HTTP 200) · 250 ms

Example request

This is the exact probe the sentinel runs daily — one read-only GET:

curl -s 'https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/topstories.json'

Example output

Captured 2026-08-16 00:29 UTC (application/json, first 400 chars):

[49311651,49314615,49314235,49314403,49310682,49313367,49298035,49312845,49314884,49314579,49309549,49313428,49315456,49315453,49244872,49310926,49313047,49313068,49314596,49265761,49309451,49315232,49313941,49314642,49306333,49246366,49258177,49237183,49312053,49314962,49261421,49314869,49310829,49314744,49312008,49313197,49299605,49308685,49312707,49247495,49312165,49242085,49314790,49310495,492

Checked 2026-08-16 00:29 UTC by the Free Tier Sentinel. Machine-readable: api-health.json.