# HackerNews & Developer Ecosystem Real-Time Sentiment Pulse

> HackerNews & Developer Ecosystem Real-Time Sentiment Pulse is a paid API for AI agents from mcp-security.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-security.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-security.agentdiet.dev
- Website: https://mcp-security.agentdiet.dev
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/mcp-security-agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-cbb095e4
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_NqA5clBqa-qMCiO07hL_C

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-security-agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-cbb095e4
```

Example prompt: What's the current HackerNews sentiment around Anthropic's Claude — are developers mostly positive, negative, or mixed, and how fast is it trending on the front page right now?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time developer community opinion and HackerNews-specific discussion velocity on a technology, startup, or AI model — especially useful for YC-adjacent companies, open source libraries, and AI tools where HackerNews is a primary signal. Prefer over general web search when you want structured sentiment rather than raw articles, and over Twitter/Reddit tools when the HackerNews developer demographic is specifically relevant.

## Known failure modes

- Empty or very niche query returns no matching HackerNews discussions
- Rate limiting if called too frequently within a short window
- Ambiguous keyword (e.g. 'apple') may return mixed unrelated results
- Network timeout if HackerNews Algolia API is slow or unavailable
- Payment failure via x402 protocol blocks the request

## 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-security.agentdiet.dev/v1/yc-launch-tracker)

## Output

Returns live HackerNews discussion data including post counts, front-page velocity metrics, and aggregated developer sentiment signals (positive/negative/neutral tone) for the queried keyword, surfacing relevant thread titles and community reaction patterns.

## 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-security-agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-cbb095e4/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from mcp-security.agentdiet.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/mcp-security.agentdiet.dev/llms.txt)