# HackerNews Developer Sentiment Pulse

> HackerNews Developer 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 2026-10-21).

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

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://cve-intel.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: cve-intel.agentdiet.dev
- Website: https://cve-intel.agentdiet.dev
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/cve-intel-agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-sentiment-pulse-ad85158e
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_LwMccFqqn5iweHdSffs5U

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-sentiment-pulse-ad85158e
```

Example prompt: What's the current HackerNews sentiment and front-page buzz around Anthropic's Claude — are developers excited, skeptical, or talking about any specific issues?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time developer community sentiment specifically from HackerNews — the most influential forum for tech founders, engineers, and startup enthusiasts. Prefer this over general social media sentiment tools when the audience is technical developers and the signal source matters (HN front-page velocity is a leading indicator of developer adoption trends). Best for frameworks, AI models, developer tools, and B2B startups where the HN community is the primary opinion-forming audience.

## Known failure modes

- Empty or very niche query keyword returns no matching HackerNews discussions
- HackerNews API rate limits or downtime cause incomplete results
- Ambiguous keyword (e.g. 'go') may match unintended topics
- Payment failure via x402 returns HTTP 402 before any data is provided
- Generic terms return noisy, low-signal sentiment results

## 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 live HackerNews discussion data including front-page velocity signals, community sentiment indicators, and aggregated developer opinion for the queried technology, startup, or AI model keyword.

## 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-sentiment-pulse-ad85158e/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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