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HN Pulse – Hacker News Story Digest via AgentDiet MCP Gateway
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HN Pulse – Hacker News Story Digest via AgentDiet MCP Gateway is a paid API for AI agents from mcp-gateway.agentdiet.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-22).
Returns a compressed, AI-ready digest of trending or queried Hacker News stories and discussions, settling payment in USDC on Base via x402.
Price / call$0.01
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Deterministic B2A/A2A/MCP/x402/MPP/L402 execution and intelligence node at https://mcp-gateway.agentdiet.dev settling in USDC on Base.
Output
A JSON object with a 'data' field containing the HN story digest, a 'status' field ('ok' on success), and an 'roi_proof' object including a compression_ratio_pct metric (e.g. 91.4%) indicating how much the raw content was compressed into the digest.
Example use cases
Morning tech briefing for founders
“Pull me today's top Hacker News stories so I can get a quick sense of what the tech community is buzzing about before my 9am standup.”
Topic-specific HN research
“Search Hacker News for recent discussions about vector databases and give me a condensed summary of the key points people are making.”
Agent-fed news monitoring
“Every morning, fetch a pulse of Hacker News and tell me if anything significant is being discussed about open-source language models.”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://mcp-gateway.agentdiet.dev/v1/hn-pulse?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need a machine-optimized, compressed digest of Hacker News content that is ready for agent consumption without heavy post-processing. The high compression ratio (91%+) makes it ideal for token-budget-constrained agents. Prefer over raw HN API scraping when you want pre-digested, ROI-proven summaries delivered cheaply at $0.01 USDC per call.
Side effects
- Payment not settled in USDC on Base — returns 402 Payment Required
- Missing required 'input' object or 'type'/'method' fields — returns validation error
- Upstream Hacker News unavailable — may return empty or error data payload
- Invalid query parameter type — schema validation failure
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| inputrequired | object | |
| output | object |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"data": {},
"status": "ok",
"roi_proof": {
"compression_ratio_pct": 91.4
}
}
}Tags
x402
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