Hacker News

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Category: News · Auth: none · Status today: OK (HTTP 200) · 401 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 19:46 UTC (application/json, first 400 chars):

[49321717,49319556,49320611,49322695,49322573,49320856,49322330,49321353,49313920,49306021,49319633,49281352,49259980,49322107,49279624,49260268,49319814,49319349,49319892,49320984,49280186,49268565,49292385,49268580,49319389,49243061,49277153,49320673,49277952,49314235,49322519,49313428,49315995,49322253,49311651,49310682,49313367,49316872,49244872,49314902,49316271,49288857,49322462,49310926,493

Checked 2026-08-16 19:46 UTC by the Free Tier Sentinel. Machine-readable: api-health.json.