Searches 30M+ Hacker News stories and comments via the public Algolia HN index. Filter by type (story|comment|poll), author, minimum points, ISO8601 date range (since/until), and sort by relevance or recency. Returns total hit count plus per-hit objectID, title, author, points, comment count, created_at, URL, and story/comment text. Public Algolia API, no auth, commercial-OK. Use it as an HN search, yc-news or startup-news search, who-is-hiring scraper, or programmer-news firehose.