# HackerNews & Developer Ecosystem Real-Time Sentiment Pulse

> HackerNews & Developer Ecosystem Real-Time Sentiment Pulse is a paid API for AI agents from onchain-risk.agentdiet.dev, paid per call via MPP, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-23).

Queries live HackerNews discussions, front-page velocity, and developer sentiment on any technology, framework, startup, or AI model keyword

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://onchain-risk.agentdiet.dev/v1/hackernews-top?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-23
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: onchain-risk.agentdiet.dev
- Website: https://onchain-risk.agentdiet.dev
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/onchain-risk-agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-2612b43a
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_xfNMNd-Jw0vWt6WpH0_J3

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 onchain-risk-agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-2612b43a -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What's the live HackerNews sentiment and front-page velocity for 'LangChain' right now — are developers excited, skeptical, or critical?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need real-time, developer-community-specific sentiment from HackerNews rather than broad social media sentiment. Ideal for tracking how the technical community reacts to a new framework, AI model release, or startup — especially when front-page velocity and discussion depth matter more than tweet volume or general public opinion.

## Known failure modes

- Empty or very niche query keyword yields no matching HackerNews stories
- HackerNews API downtime causes unavailable results
- Payment failure (HTTP 402) if x402 micropayment is not processed
- Rate limiting if the same keyword is queried too rapidly
- Ambiguous keyword (e.g. 'apple') may return irrelevant discussions

## 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://onchain-risk.agentdiet.dev/v1/hackernews-top)

## Output

Returns live HackerNews discussion data including front-page velocity metrics, relevant thread summaries, and an aggregated developer sentiment signal for the queried keyword, reflecting the current community pulse on that technology or topic.

## 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/onchain-risk-agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-2612b43a/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from onchain-risk.agentdiet.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/onchain-risk.agentdiet.dev/llms.txt)