# HackerNews & Developer Ecosystem Real-Time Sentiment Pulse

> HackerNews & Developer Ecosystem Real-Time Sentiment Pulse is a paid API for AI agents from sec-intel.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://sec-intel.agentdiet.dev/v1/hackernews-top?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-21
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: sec-intel.agentdiet.dev
- Website: https://sec-intel.agentdiet.dev
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/sec-intel-agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-77c6e40b
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_QPdkH64sZ4gIE-EP7xAIR

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 sec-intel-agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-77c6e40b
```

Example prompt: What is the current HackerNews sentiment and front-page velocity around the Anthropic Claude model — are developers excited, critical, or neutral about it right now?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time, developer-community-specific sentiment from HackerNews rather than broad social media sentiment or news aggregators. It is ideal for gauging how technical audiences — engineers, founders, and early adopters — are reacting to a specific framework, AI model, or startup at this moment, not historical trends. Prefer it over generic web search sentiment tools when the target audience is specifically the Hacker News developer community.

## Known failure modes

- Empty or vague query string returns no meaningful results
- HackerNews Algolia API rate limits or downtime cause fetch failures
- Very niche or newly coined keywords return zero matching stories
- Misspelled technology or startup names yield irrelevant or empty results
- Payment (x402) failure results in 402 response before query is executed

## 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://sec-intel.agentdiet.dev/v1/hackernews-top)

## Output

Returns live HackerNews discussion data for the queried keyword, including relevant story titles, comment counts, upvote signals, front-page velocity metrics, and an aggregated developer sentiment snapshot indicating whether community reception is positive, mixed, or negative.

## 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/sec-intel-agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-77c6e40b/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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