# HackerNews & Developer Ecosystem Real-Time Sentiment Pulse

> HackerNews & Developer Ecosystem Real-Time Sentiment Pulse is a paid API for AI agents from llms-generator.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 topic.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://llms-generator.agentdiet.dev/v1/yc-launch-tracker?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-21
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: llms-generator.agentdiet.dev
- Website: https://llms-generator.agentdiet.dev
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/llms-generator-agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-5b79cec2
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_YzOjkJol9N3_6bt4VtEBy

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 llms-generator-agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-5b79cec2
```

Example prompt: What's the current HackerNews sentiment and discussion velocity around the Llama 4 model — are developers excited, skeptical, or largely ignoring it?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time developer community opinion specifically from HackerNews — the canonical source for technically sophisticated, startup-aware developer sentiment. Prefer it over generic social media sentiment APIs when your audience is developers, VCs, or technical evaluators who weight HN reception heavily. Especially useful for evaluating new framework launches, YC-backed startups, or AI model releases where HN front-page velocity is a meaningful signal.

## Known failure modes

- Empty or very niche query returns no HackerNews results
- HackerNews API rate limits or downtime cause fetch failures
- Ambiguous keyword matches unrelated threads, skewing sentiment
- Response schema is loosely typed (object) so field presence may vary
- Payment failure via x402 prevents endpoint access

## 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://llms-generator.agentdiet.dev/v1/yc-launch-tracker)

## Output

Returns aggregated real-time HackerNews data for the queried topic, including active discussion threads, front-page velocity metrics, and an overall developer sentiment signal (positive/negative/mixed), drawn from live HackerNews posts and comments.

## 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/llms-generator-agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-5b79cec2/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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