# 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 technology, framework, startup, or AI model keyword.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://llms-generator.agentdiet.dev/v1/hackernews-trends?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-a2d0574f
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap__9NEVilsvGZSf0hSOqsQH

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-a2d0574f
```

Example prompt: What's the current developer sentiment and HackerNews discussion velocity around LangChain — are people excited, skeptical, or indifferent?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time developer community sentiment specifically from HackerNews — the primary forum for technical founders, engineers, and early adopters. Prefer this over general web sentiment tools when the audience is developers or when you care about technical discourse velocity and front-page traction rather than social media sentiment.

## Known failure modes

- Empty or too-generic query returns low-signal or no results
- HackerNews upstream latency causes stale or incomplete data
- Very niche or obscure topics return no matching discussions
- Rate limiting or payment failure (HTTP 402) if USDC balance is insufficient
- Ambiguous keyword (e.g. 'apple') may conflate unrelated topics

## 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/hackernews-trends)

## Output

Returns an aggregated sentiment analysis of live HackerNews discussions for the queried keyword, including front-page velocity metrics, sentiment polarity (positive/negative/neutral), discussion thread counts, and a pulse score reflecting current developer community interest and opinion.

## 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

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