Comment by minimaxir

  hn_url := "http://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/"
  page := rand.Intn(50)
  points := randomInt(200, 600)
  url := hn_url + "search?tags=story&numericFilters=points>" + strconv.Itoa(points) + "&page=" + strconv.Itoa(page)

That's an odd definition of random.