# 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/hackernews-trends?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-ace74c43
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_quB_lIN51dqD9_Ju_Ik0p

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-ace74c43
```

Example prompt: What's the live HackerNews developer sentiment on Rust right now — are people excited about it, frustrated, or is it barely getting any traction on the front page?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time, developer-community-specific sentiment from HackerNews rather than broader social media sentiment. It is ideal for gauging how technical audiences are reacting to a new tool, AI model, startup, or framework at this moment — especially useful before product launches, competitive analysis, or investment research targeting the developer ecosystem.

## Known failure modes

- Empty or very niche query returns no matching HackerNews threads
- HackerNews API rate limits or outages cause degraded data freshness
- Ambiguous keyword (e.g. 'Go') may return noisy mixed results
- Generic terms return too broad a result set to be useful
- Response schema is generic object so structure may vary

## 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/hackernews-trends)

## Output

Returns an analysis of live HackerNews activity for the queried keyword, including front-page velocity signals, relevant discussion threads, and an aggregated developer sentiment reading (positive, negative, mixed) from the HackerNews community at query time.

## 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-ace74c43/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)