You can only sort by popularity, which maps to 'score' in the data structure that the API sorts. You can see that here: https://github.com/HackerNews/API https:

You can only sort by popularity, which maps to 'score' in the data structure that the API sorts. You can see that here: https://github.com/HackerNews/API https://github.com/HackerNews/API The highest position on front page is not, AFAICT stored in any way and is not searchable.