# HackerNews & Developer Ecosystem Real-Time Sentiment Pulse

> HackerNews & Developer Ecosystem Real-Time Sentiment Pulse is a paid API for AI agents from mcp-compiler.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, startup, framework, or AI model keyword.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://mcp-compiler.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: mcp-compiler.agentdiet.dev
- Website: https://mcp-compiler.agentdiet.dev
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/mcp-compiler-agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-98379802
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_-ldVZptvMR5xECDjgS5gy

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 mcp-compiler-agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-98379802
```

Example prompt: What's the current developer sentiment on HackerNews around Remix.js — are people excited about it, how fast is it showing up on the front page, and what are developers generally saying?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you specifically need real-time developer community sentiment from HackerNews — particularly useful for tracking YC startup launches, new framework adoption, AI model reception, or open-source library buzz among technical audiences. Prefer this over generic web search sentiment tools when the target audience is specifically developers and the HackerNews community, or when front-page velocity and discussion thread depth are the signals you care about.

## Known failure modes

- Empty or very new topic with no HackerNews discussions returns sparse or no sentiment data
- Overly generic query terms may return noisy, unfocused sentiment results
- Rate limits or payment failures (x402) may block the call
- HackerNews API downtime could cause stale or failed responses
- Ambiguous keywords (e.g. 'Apple') may conflate multiple 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://mcp-compiler.agentdiet.dev/v1/yc-launch-tracker)

## Output

Returns an aggregated sentiment analysis of live HackerNews discussions for the queried keyword, including front-page velocity metrics, discussion thread data, and an overall developer sentiment reading (positive/negative/neutral trends) sourced in real time from HackerNews.

## 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/mcp-compiler-agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-98379802/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from mcp-compiler.agentdiet.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/mcp-compiler.agentdiet.dev/llms.txt)