# 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 community sentiment for any framework, startup, library, or AI model

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://mesh.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: mesh.agentdiet.dev
- Website: https://mesh.agentdiet.dev
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/mesh-agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-sentiment-734c615d
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_DdeHya7AXvytAeiFeAnUY

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 mesh-agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-sentiment-734c615d
```

Example prompt: What's the HackerNews community saying about Bun right now — how much front-page traction is it getting and what's the overall developer sentiment?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time developer community sentiment specifically from HackerNews — the canonical source for technical founders, engineers, and early adopters. Prefer this over general social media sentiment tools when your audience is developers or when evaluating technical credibility of a framework, startup, or AI model. Best for topics where HackerNews is the primary signal (open source projects, dev tools, AI research, early-stage startups).

## Known failure modes

- Empty or very niche query keyword returns no matching HackerNews discussions
- HackerNews Algolia API downtime causes failed or stale results
- Extremely generic queries (e.g. 'AI') may return unfocused or noisy results
- Payment failure via x402 prevents endpoint access
- Rate limiting if called too frequently in succession

## 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-trends)

## Output

Returns live HackerNews discussion data including front-page velocity metrics, sentiment signals from developer comments, relevant discussion threads, and overall community reaction for the queried technology, startup, library, or AI model.

## 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/mesh-agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-sentiment-734c615d/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from mesh.agentdiet.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/mesh.agentdiet.dev/llms.txt)