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HackerNews & Developer Ecosystem Real-Time Sentiment Pulse
HackerNews & Developer Ecosystem Real-Time Sentiment Pulse is a paid API for AI agents from mesh.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 keyword.
Price / call$0.01
Success—
StatusUnknown
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://mesh.agentdiet.dev/v1/hackernews-top)
Output
Returns live HackerNews discussion data including relevant threads, front-page velocity metrics, and an aggregated developer sentiment signal for the queried topic — surfacing community reactions, criticism, excitement levels, and trending activity around the keyword.
Example use cases
Pre-launch competitor pulse check
“Before we launch, can you check what HackerNews developers are saying about our main competitor Vercel right now — any recent threads, positive or negative chatter?”
AI model community reception check
“How is the HackerNews developer community reacting to the new Llama 3 release? Are developers excited, skeptical, or mostly quiet about it?”
Open source library sentiment audit
“Can you pull up live HackerNews sentiment for tRPC? I want to know if there are any recent discussions criticizing it or praising it before we adopt it in our stack.”
Technical details
Endpoint
GEThttps://mesh.agentdiet.dev/v1/hackernews-top?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when you need real-time developer community sentiment specifically from HackerNews — the gold standard for technical and startup opinion. Prefer this over general social sentiment APIs when your audience is engineers, founders, or technical decision-makers. Ideal for competitor intelligence, library adoption decisions, AI model reception checks, and startup PR monitoring within the developer ecosystem.
Side effects
- Empty or vague query returns no useful discussions
- Very niche or obscure topics may return sparse or zero results
- HackerNews API rate limits could cause timeouts or degraded responses
- Sentiment may be skewed if topic is very new with few posts
- Payment failure (x402) blocks the request before execution
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| queryrequired | string | Technology, startup, library, or topic keyword to analyze across HackerNews |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "object"
}Reviews
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