Hacker News API
Hacker News Firebase API: current max item id.
Operational
Last checked · response time 107 ms
90-day uptime
90 days ago60d ago30d agoToday
Monitoring since · 32 days of data
Recent changes
No changes detected in 32 days of monitoring (since 2026-06-11).
Integrate
The live status, 90-day uptime figure and change history on this page are also machine-readable: embed the badge, poll the JSON, or subscribe to the feed. No key needed.
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Machine-readable: JSON (versioned v1, CORS-enabled) · Atom feed of drift & outage events.
Guardian probes https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/maxitem.json about every 5 minutes. How Guardian measures.