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Full-text search across all of Hacker News (via the Algolia HN API). Search stories or comments by keyword, sorted by relevance or by date (newest first). Filter by tags (story/comment/ask_hn/show_hn/poll) and by author. Each hit: title, URL, author, points, comment count, story/comment text, created time, and canonical HN URL. Net-new vs news.hn-top (curated feeds) and news.search (general news).

Search CMS Open Payments — every payment from a drug/device manufacturer or GPO to a US physician or teaching hospital under the Sunshine Act (~10M records per year). Lookup by 10-digit NPI for the recipient (most precise), by last/first name + state, or by payer (manufacturer) name. Each record includes recipient (NPI, name, specialty, location), payer (manufacturer name + state/country), payment (amount USD, date, nature of payment such as 'Consulting Fee'/'Food and Beverage'/'Travel'/'Royalty', form of payment), and associated product (drug/device name + therapeutic area). Investigative journalism + KYC + healthcare conflict-of-interest research. Public-domain federal data.

Resolve a researcher by ORCID iD. Pass orcid (e.g. 0000-0002-1825-0097, with or without the https://orcid.org/ prefix). Returns the researcher name, affiliations (employments and educations with organization, role, department, years, and a current flag), a total works count, and a works summary (title, type, year, DOI when present). Data: ORCID Public API, free and keyless; per-record visibility is set by the record holder. The canonical author key in scholarly metadata — pair with /api/papers/search, /api/paper/doi-lookup, and /api/research/org (ROR institutions). Use to verify an author identity, current institution, or publication record before citing.

Look up country metadata via REST Countries. Pass alpha2 (2-letter ISO 3166-1), alpha3 (3-letter), or name (with optional fullText=true for exact match). Returns common + official name, ISO codes, region + subregion, independence + UN-member flags, capital(s), population, area km², landlocked flag, neighboring borders (alpha-3), timezones, currencies (code → name + symbol), languages, calling code, flag emoji + SVG/PNG URLs, lat/lng coordinates, Google Maps + OSM URLs, driving side, top-level domains.

Current weather conditions for a US ZIP code (temperature, wind, humidity, conditions). Backed by the US National Weather Service (api.weather.gov) — public domain, no rate-limit pressure on commercial use.

Unified read API over US National Park Service developer.nps.gov. Pick a resource: parks (every NPS unit — historical parks, monuments, seashores, etc.), alerts (closures, dangers, info), campgrounds (NPS-operated campgrounds with reservation links), events (talks, walks, ranger programs), newsreleases (park news), thingstodo (activities by park), visitorcenters. Filter by parkCode (CSV — e.g. "acad,yose,grca"), state, or free-text query. Returns the upstream NPS payload verbatim (rich nested objects with images, addresses, operating hours, etc.).

Search MSHA mine safety accident records via US Department of Labor Open Data Portal (~738k accidents at US mines). Each row carries mine id, contractor id, mine subunit (underground/surface/mill/etc.), FIPS state code, accident date, classification, narrative, injury degree + nature + body-part, occupation code, experience, schooling, sex, age. Filter by mine id, contractor id, FIPS state code, subunit code, accident date range, classification code. Source of truth for fatalities + injuries at every US coal + metal/nonmetal mine since 2000.

Related-word lookup via Datamuse. Supply a seed word and a relation kind: rhymes, near-rhymes, synonyms, antonyms, means (semantic match), triggers (associated by usage), homophones, sounds-like (phonetic neighbour), spelled-like (typo / wildcard), follows-from (words that come after), preceded-by (words that come before). Returns ranked candidates with relevance score, syllable count, and grammatical tags. Useful for content generation, rhyme/poetry, vocabulary expansion, and naming agents.

Locate alternative-fuel stations across the US via NREL Alternative Fuels Data Center. Search by lat/lon + radius (miles), state, or zip. Filter by fuelType (BD=Biodiesel | CNG=Compressed Natural Gas | ELEC=Electric vehicle charging | E85=Ethanol | HY=Hydrogen | LNG=Liquefied Natural Gas | LPG=Propane | RD=Renewable Diesel), status (E=Available | P=Planned | T=Temporarily Unavailable), access (public/private), and EV network. For EV chargers, returns connector types (J1772, CHAdeMO, Tesla, etc.), Level 1/2/DC-fast counts, pricing, and access hours. Indispensable for trip-planning agents, fleet logistics, EV-adoption analysis.

Search US colleges + universities via the Department of Education College Scorecard API. Filter by free-text name (q), OPE/IPEDS school id, state, city, zip, ownership (1=Public | 2=Private nonprofit | 3=Private for-profit), predominant degree level (0=Not classified | 1=Certificate | 2=Associate | 3=Bachelor | 4=Graduate), enrollment range. Returns a curated field set per school: identity (name, alias, URL, location), classification (Carnegie, locale, religious affiliation, minority-serving designation), latest admissions (admit rate, SAT/ACT midpoints), cost (in-state + out-of-state tuition, total cost of attendance), aid (median debt, federal-loan rate, Pell rate), completion rate, 10-year median earnings, repayment rate, lat/lon. Every accredited US institution. Use perPage + page for pagination; page is 0-indexed.

Search US federal political candidates via the OpenFEC API. Filter by free-text q (name match), candidate ID (e.g. H0VA01076), state, district, party (DEM, REP, IND, LIB, GRE, etc.), office (P=President | S=Senate | H=House), election cycle (even years), election year, and hasRaised (only candidates with reported receipts). Returns FEC candidate ID, name, party, office, state/district, incumbency status, active-through cycle, first/last file dates, cycles, principal committee linkage. Use the candidate ID returned here to fetch their committees with /api/gov/fec-committee.

Look up ISO 3166-2 subdivisions (states, provinces, regions). Pass code (e.g. US-CA) to resolve a single subdivision → name + country, or country (2-letter ISO 3166-1, e.g. US) to list all of that country's subdivisions with their codes. Bundled authoritative ISO 3166-2 data (~3.8k subdivisions across 237 countries) — the address/jurisdiction ground truth an LLM hallucinates codes for.

Look up an IETF RFC by number. Pass number as RFC2616, 2616, or the integer 2616. Returns the RFC title, authors, publication date, status (e.g. INTERNET STANDARD, PROPOSED STANDARD, DRAFT STANDARD, INFORMATIONAL, EXPERIMENTAL, HISTORIC, BEST CURRENT PRACTICE), stream (IETF/IAB/IRTF/Independent/Legacy), DOI, canonical rfc-editor.org URL, and the full standards relationship chain: which RFCs this one obsoletes / is obsoleted by, and which it updates / is updated by. Authoritative data from the IETF/RFC Editor index. Use this to resolve whether a spec is current or superseded before relying on it.

Resolve an FCC ID (printed on US wireless/electronic devices) to the grantee — the manufacturer that holds the FCC equipment authorization. Pass fccId in any form (BCG-E3217A, BCGE3217A). Returns the grantee code, the product code, and the grantee company: name, city, state, country, and the date its grantee code was registered. Uses the FCC EAS Equipment Authorization Grantee Registrations open dataset, free and keyless — the "who made this device" lookup an agent reading a label off hardware cannot do natively. (Per-product RF detail — frequencies, equipment class — is not in the open dataset and is out of scope.)

Current aviation weather observation (METAR) for one or more airports. Pass ids = comma-separated ICAO station ids (e.g. KATL, EGLL, KJFK). Returns the raw METAR plus decoded fields: flight category (VFR/MVFR/IFR/LIFR), temperature + dewpoint (°C), wind direction/speed/gust (kt), visibility, altimeter (inHg), and cloud layers. Source: NOAA Aviation Weather Center (keyless, public domain).

CMS Care Compare lookup for every CMS-certified US hospital (~5k). Lookup by 6-digit CMS Facility ID for direct match, or fuzzy by name + state + city + hospital type, with optional minimum overall rating (1-5) filter. Each record includes facility ID, name, full address, phone, hospital type (Acute Care / Critical Access / Psychiatric / etc.), ownership category, emergency services flag, birthing-friendly designation, CMS overall star rating, and per-measure-group counts (mortality, safety, readmission, patient experience, effectiveness, timeliness, medical imaging). Public-domain federal data.

Hacker News feed of items. Pass kind = top (default) | new | best | ask | show | job to pick the feed. Returns each item's id, type, author, time (unix + ISO), title, URL, text (for self-posts), score, descendant + kid counts, parent (for comments), dead/deleted flags, and canonical news.ycombinator.com URL. Default limit = 30, max 100. Useful for tech-sentiment + topic tracking.

Current air quality for any coordinate worldwide. Pass lat + lon. Returns the US AQI (+ category Good/Moderate/Unhealthy…), the European AQI, and pollutant concentrations: PM2.5, PM10, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide, carbon monoxide. Source: Open-Meteo / CAMS (keyless).

FINRA BrokerCheck lookup — every US registered broker / investment advisor (~620k current + former). Search by free-text query (name + firm) or by CRD number for a direct individual record. Each result includes CRD ID, name (with any 'doing business as' aliases), broker-check + IA scope (Active/Inactive), a hasDisclosures flag (yes/no for complaints, settlements, terminations on file), industry-start date, FINRA registration count, and current + previous employments (firm name, branch city/state, registration dates). Public per FINRA's investor-protection BrokerCheck program; pair with /api/finance/sec-filings for cross-reference.

English dictionary lookup via dictionaryapi.dev (Wiktionary-sourced). Returns full entries with IPA phonetic transcription(s), audio pronunciation URLs, and meanings grouped by part of speech. Each meaning carries definitions with usage examples and per-definition synonyms + antonyms. CC BY-SA 3.0/4.0 — attribute when redistributing. Useful for vocabulary agents, writing assistants, language-learning tools.

Search the Recreation Information Database (RIDB) — the single source of truth for federal recreation lands and programs across NPS, USFS, BLM, USACE, BOR, FWS, NARA. Pick a resource: recareas (designated recreation areas), facilities (individual sites — campgrounds, day-use, visitor centers), campsites (individual reservable campsites with attributes), permits (special-use permits, lotteries), tours, events, activities (taxonomy lookup). Filter by free-text query, state, activity ID, or lat/lon + radius (miles, max 50). Used by every federal-recreation-related agent: trip planning, permit chasers, fishing/hunting locator, campground availability tools.

Hacker News user profile by username. Returns id, account creation time (unix + ISO), karma, the about/bio text, number of items submitted, and the canonical news.ycombinator.com profile URL. Unknown user returns an empty result.

Look up an npm package by name (supports scoped packages like @sentry/node). Returns description, homepage, repository, license, author + maintainers list, keywords, distTags (latest/beta/rc/etc.), latest version + publication date, and the 50 most recent versions with their publish dates + deprecation status. ~3M JavaScript/TypeScript packages. npm public registry.

Daily reference exchange rates from the European Central Bank (via Frankfurter). 30+ major currencies. Pass base = 3-letter ISO 4217 currency (default USD), optional symbols = comma-separated target codes (default = all available), optional date = YYYY-MM-DD for historical rates (history back to 1999, business days only; omit for latest), optional amount to convert (default 1). Returns base, date, amount, and a map of currency code → rate.