# HackerNews & Developer Ecosystem Real-Time Sentiment Pulse

> HackerNews & Developer Ecosystem Real-Time Sentiment Pulse is a paid API for AI agents from agentdiet.dev, paid per call via MPP, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-28).

Queries live HackerNews discussions, front-page velocity, and developer sentiment for any technology, startup, framework, or AI model topic.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://agentdiet.dev/v1/hackernews-trends?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-28
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: agentdiet.dev
- Website: https://agentdiet.dev
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-sentiment-pulse-2a703639
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_8WwI2aeJad6BYfs30qQD9

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-sentiment-pulse-2a703639 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What's the current HackerNews sentiment and front-page velocity for 'Anthropic Claude'? I want to know what developers are saying and how fast it's trending right now.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time developer community sentiment specifically from HackerNews — the go-to community for startup founders, engineers, and AI practitioners. Ideal when you need front-page velocity data or want a developer-centric sentiment read rather than general social media sentiment. Prefer over Twitter/Reddit sentiment tools when the target audience is technical developers and startup ecosystem participants.

## Known failure modes

- Empty or ambiguous query string returns no relevant results
- Very niche or obscure topics may have little-to-no HackerNews coverage
- HackerNews API downtime or rate limiting may cause fetch failures
- Overly broad queries (e.g. 'software') may return noisy, unactionable sentiment
- Payment authorization failure via x402 protocol blocks the request

## How this service works

Queries live HackerNews discussions, front-page velocity, and developer sentiment on any framework, startup, or AI model. (Live x402 v2, IETF MPP & MCP endpoint at https://agentdiet.dev/v1/hackernews-trends)

## Output

Returns live HackerNews discussion data including active threads, front-page velocity metrics, and aggregated developer sentiment signals for the queried topic, framework, startup, or AI model.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "required": [
  "query"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "minLength": 1,
   "description": "Technology, startup, library, or topic keyword to analyze across HackerNews"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object"
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-sentiment-pulse-2a703639/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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