# HackerNews & Developer Ecosystem Real-Time Sentiment Pulse

> HackerNews & Developer Ecosystem Real-Time Sentiment Pulse is a paid API for AI agents from alpha-stream.agentdiet.dev, paid per call via MPP, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-21).

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

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://alpha-stream.agentdiet.dev/v1/hackernews-top?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-21
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: alpha-stream.agentdiet.dev
- Website: https://alpha-stream.agentdiet.dev
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/alpha-stream-agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-79228dd2
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_XoW3GlMosrKc4NtHSqqAm

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 alpha-stream-agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-79228dd2
```

Example prompt: What's the current HackerNews sentiment and front-page velocity for 'Llama 3' — are developers excited, skeptical, or indifferent right now?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time, developer-community-specific sentiment from HackerNews rather than broad social media sentiment. It is best suited for evaluating technical tools, frameworks, AI models, or startups among an engineering-savvy audience. Prefer this over Twitter/Reddit sentiment tools when the target audience is specifically software developers or technical founders.

## Known failure modes

- Empty or too-generic query returning noisy/irrelevant results
- HackerNews API rate limits causing incomplete data retrieval
- Very niche topics with zero recent HackerNews mentions returning empty results
- Ambiguous keywords (e.g. 'Apple') matching unintended topics
- Payment failure via x402 returning HTTP 402 before query executes

## 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://alpha-stream.agentdiet.dev/v1/hackernews-top)

## Output

Returns live HackerNews discussion data including relevant threads, front-page velocity metrics, and an aggregated developer sentiment signal for the queried keyword, reflecting what the developer community is currently saying about that technology, 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/alpha-stream-agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-79228dd2/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from alpha-stream.agentdiet.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/alpha-stream.agentdiet.dev/llms.txt)