# 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 2026-10-23).

Queries live HackerNews discussions, front-page velocity, and developer sentiment for any framework, startup, library, or AI model topic

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://sec-intel.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: 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-9ced98cb
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_418eIJGIBOJDOxlpQuHFD

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-9ced98cb -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What's the current developer sentiment on HackerNews around the Anthropic Claude model — any trending discussions or front-page activity I should know about?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time, live developer community sentiment and discussion velocity specifically from HackerNews — the most influential tech/startup discussion forum. Prefer it over general web sentiment tools when your audience cares about what engineers, founders, and early adopters think, not mainstream consumer opinion. Ideal for competitive intelligence on frameworks, startup launch monitoring, and AI model reception tracking among developers.

## Known failure modes

- Empty or overly generic query string returns low-signal or no results
- Very niche or newly coined terms may have no HackerNews activity yet
- Rate limiting or upstream HackerNews API downtime may cause failures
- Payment failure via x402 (insufficient USDC balance) blocks the call
- Network timeout if live HackerNews scraping takes too long

## 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, front-page velocity metrics, and aggregated developer sentiment signals for the queried technology, startup, or AI model topic, drawn from active threads and community engagement patterns.

## 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-9ced98cb/health.json
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