# 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 framework, startup, library, or AI model keyword

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://sec-intel.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: 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-79d0983f
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_9TU3Vnc7pyxKc3xiu2btL

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-79d0983f
```

Example prompt: What's the current HackerNews sentiment and front-page velocity for 'Anthropic Claude'? I want to know how the developer community is reacting to it right now.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time developer community sentiment specifically from HackerNews — the canonical source for technical founders, early adopters, and the YC/startup ecosystem. Prefer this over generic social listening tools when your audience is developers or technical decision-makers, or when tracking startup launches, framework debates, or AI model reception among engineers.

## Known failure modes

- Empty or very niche query terms may return no matching HN discussions
- HackerNews API rate limits or downtime may cause failures or stale data
- Very broad single-word queries may return noisy, unfocused results
- Payment failure via x402 will block the response with HTTP 402

## 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/yc-launch-tracker)

## Output

Returns aggregated HackerNews discussion data for the queried keyword, including live front-page velocity signals, relevant story links or comment threads, and an overall developer sentiment assessment indicating whether community reception is positive, negative, or mixed.

## 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

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