Tech news API: the current Hacker News front page — 30 ranked stories as normalized JSON: rank, story id, title, outbound article URL (or HN discussion link for self-posts), points, author, comment count, ISO 8601 time. Single upstream call via the official Algolia HN API. Use for tech trend detection, topic monitoring, news agents, and content-pipeline seeding. Cached up to 2 minutes.