# ForgeMesh Tech News Pulse

> ForgeMesh Tech News Pulse is a paid API for AI agents from x402.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.003/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns the current top 30 ranked tech stories from Hacker News as normalized JSON, including title, URL, points, author, comment count, and ISO timestamps.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://x402.forgemesh.io/tech-news-pulse
- Price: $0.003/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/forgemesh-tech-news-pulse-cdbbb47b
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_yN8pfK4lCZMV-RaJMJYOH

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 forgemesh-tech-news-pulse-cdbbb47b -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Pull the current top 30 tech stories from the Hacker News front page — I need the titles, links, point scores, authors, and comment counts as structured JSON for my newsletter pipeline.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a ready-to-consume, normalized JSON snapshot of the Hacker News front page without scraping or parsing HTML yourself. Ideal for newsletter pipelines, tech trend detection, content agents, and topic monitoring that need fresh (3-minute cache) structured data including scores, authors, and comment counts in a single call.

## Known failure modes

- Upstream Hacker News API unavailable — returns error or stale cache
- Cache miss during refresh window may cause slight delay
- Payment failure via x402 protocol blocks access
- Empty or partial results if upstream data is momentarily incomplete

## How this service works

Tech news pulse API: the current 30 top-ranked tech stories from the leading hacker community front page — title, outbound article URL, points, author, comment count, and ISO timestamps as normalized JSON. Use for tech trend detection, topic monitoring, newsletter pipelines, and content agents. Cached 3 minutes.

## Output

A normalized JSON array of the 30 top-ranked Hacker News stories, each containing: story title, outbound article URL, upvote points, author username, comment count, and ISO 8601 timestamps. Data is cached for up to 3 minutes.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {}
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "data": {
   "hits": [
    {
     "url": "https://example.com",
     "title": "Show HN: ...",
     "points": 312,
     "num_comments": 148
    }
   ]
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/forgemesh-tech-news-pulse-cdbbb47b/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from x402.forgemesh.io](https://www.zero.xyz/host/x402.forgemesh.io/llms.txt)