# HackerNews & Developer Ecosystem Real-Time Sentiment Pulse

> HackerNews & Developer Ecosystem Real-Time Sentiment Pulse is a paid API for AI agents from cve-intel.agentdiet.dev, paid per call via MPP, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-23).

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

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://cve-intel.agentdiet.dev/v1/hackernews-top?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-23
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: cve-intel.agentdiet.dev
- Website: https://cve-intel.agentdiet.dev
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/cve-intel-agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-e7afdf59
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_hRzd2VdKhcMsPm6krDKF3

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 cve-intel-agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-e7afdf59 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What's the current HackerNews buzz and developer sentiment around the Bun JavaScript runtime — pull live discussions and any front-page velocity data?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time developer community sentiment and HackerNews-specific discussion signals rather than generic social media sentiment. It is particularly valuable for assessing how technical audiences — developers, founders, engineers — perceive a framework, AI model, startup, or open-source library. Prefer this over general web search when HackerNews front-page velocity and comment thread activity are the primary signal of interest.

## Known failure modes

- Empty or rare topic keyword returns no results or low-signal output
- HackerNews API or scrape source temporarily unavailable causing timeout
- Overly broad query returns noisy, unfocused results
- Payment required (HTTP 402) if x402 USDC micropayment not attached
- Ambiguous keyword matches unrelated discussions (e.g. 'apple' matching fruit and Apple Inc.)

## 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://cve-intel.agentdiet.dev/v1/hackernews-top)

## Output

Returns structured data including live HackerNews discussion threads, front-page velocity metrics, and aggregated developer sentiment signals for the queried topic — likely including story titles, scores, comment counts, submission timestamps, and an overall sentiment summary.

## 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/cve-intel-agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-e7afdf59/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from cve-intel.agentdiet.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/cve-intel.agentdiet.dev/llms.txt)