AgentDiet HN Pulse — Hacker News Digest Endpoint

Choose this endpoint when you need a token-efficient, pre-compressed Hacker News digest and want to minimize context window consumption in an AI agent pipeline. It is particularly useful when your agent operates under strict token budgets and you want proof of compression savings (roi_proof). Prefer it over raw HN API calls when you need distillation built into the retrieval step itself and are already operating in a micropayment-capable (x402/USDC) agent environment.

• Payment not settled in USDC on Base — returns 402 Payment Required
• Invalid or missing 'input.type' or 'input.method' fields — returns 400 Bad Request
• Service node unavailable — returns 503 or empty data object
• Query parameter malformed — may return empty or partial data
• Rate limiting or quota exceeded — possible 429 response