# HackerNews & Developer Ecosystem Real-Time Sentiment Pulse

> HackerNews & Developer Ecosystem Real-Time Sentiment Pulse is a paid API for AI agents from company-enrich.agentdiet.dev, paid per call via MPP, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-11-01).

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

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://company-enrich.agentdiet.dev/v1/dev-sentiment?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-11-01
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: company-enrich.agentdiet.dev
- Website: https://company-enrich.agentdiet.dev
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/company-enrich-agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-cbfca45a
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_t4ySYa5-UD5n2uGRjIWHX

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 company-enrich-agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-cbfca45a -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What's the current developer sentiment on HackerNews about Llama 3? Pull live discussions, front-page velocity, and overall community vibe.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time developer community sentiment specifically from HackerNews — the primary forum where engineers, founders, and technical decision-makers discuss frameworks, startups, and AI tools. Prefer this over generic web search sentiment tools when you want authoritative developer-centric signal with front-page velocity context rather than broad social media noise.

## Known failure modes

- Empty or ambiguous query returns no results or generic noise
- Highly niche or misspelled topic names may return unrelated threads
- Rate limiting or payment failure if x402 micropayment is not properly handled
- HackerNews Algolia API downtime may cause delayed or incomplete results
- Very new topics with no HackerNews history return minimal signal

## 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://company-enrich.agentdiet.dev/v1/dev-sentiment)

## Output

Returns aggregated developer sentiment, live HackerNews discussion threads related to the queried topic, front-page velocity metrics, and overall community tone indicators for the specified 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/company-enrich-agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-cbfca45a/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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