Hacker News
Top stories from https://news.ycombinator.com (with 100+ score) Contribute to the development here: https://github.com/phil-r/hackernewsbot Also check https://t.me/designer_news Contacts: @philr
Measured 2026-W36 · 2026-08-31 · public Telegram data
This week
First measurement. The series starts next week.
Channels that recommend it
Telegram publishes what it recommends beside a channel. It does not publish the reverse. This list is ours, computed across 5,177 indexed channels, and it is the better measure of where a channel actually sits.
Read this channel from your own code
Everything above comes from two ordinary calls: resolve the username, then ask for the channel. No bot token, no phone number.
curl --request GET \
--url 'https://telegram155.p.rapidapi.com/v1/usernames/hacker_news_feed' \
--header 'x-rapidapi-host: telegram155.p.rapidapi.com' \
--header 'x-rapidapi-key: YOUR_KEY'Measure @hacker_news_feed yourself
Every number on this page — subscribers, growth, views, forwards — comes from one call to the same API. 2,500 calls a month, no card. No bot token and no phone number.