Hacker News is a popular online forum that's used by software developers. The topics on this forum are usually related to technology, but not always. The stories are ranked according to the number of votes by users, respective timeliness, and other factors. Every story has a score associated with it.

In this section, we will develop a program that retrieves the top stories from Hacker News and calculates an average score of those stories. More information about the Hacker News API can be found in the following GitHub repository: https://github.com/HackerNews/API. Here, you can quickly go over the process of retrieving stories and details about each story.