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Category: News · Auth: none · Status today: OK (HTTP 200) · 127 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 2026-08-23 00:54 UTC (application/json, first 400 chars):

[49402189,49404380,49402232,49402781,49400408,49351802,49355659,49346854,49387959,49399898,49379732,49402741,49397074,49392536,49398152,49393051,49373822,49402202,49402907,49360643,49376197,49377316,49394827,49399524,49398158,49381991,49393052,49399591,49364296,49352470,49370284,49402521,49384210,49404869,49401549,49374729,49393537,49361478,49375176,49391168,49389846,49392200,49388694,49380128,493

Checked 2026-08-23 00:54 UTC by the Free Tier Sentinel. Machine-readable: api-health.json.