# HackerNews & Developer Ecosystem Real-Time Sentiment Pulse

> HackerNews & Developer Ecosystem Real-Time Sentiment Pulse is a paid API for AI agents from shopify-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://shopify-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: shopify-intel.agentdiet.dev
- Website: https://shopify-intel.agentdiet.dev
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/shopify-intel-agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-8ee32046
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_-XA71F-co8ubu6oElO4kn

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 shopify-intel-agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-8ee32046
```

Example prompt: What's the current HackerNews sentiment and discussion velocity around the 'Bun' JavaScript runtime — are developers excited, skeptical, or neutral about it right now?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need real-time developer community sentiment specifically from HackerNews — the canonical pulse for the developer and tech startup ecosystem. Prefer this over general web sentiment tools when your audience is engineers, founders, or technical decision-makers, or when you want front-page velocity as a proxy for hype trajectory. Ideal for competitive intelligence on frameworks, AI models, or startups from a developer-first lens.

## Known failure modes

- Empty or vague query string returns no meaningful results
- Highly obscure or misspelled topic may yield no matching HackerNews threads
- Rate limiting or payment failure (HTTP 402) if USDC payment is not properly attached
- Service may return stale or incomplete data if HackerNews API is temporarily unavailable
- Very broad generic queries (e.g. 'AI') may return overwhelming or unfocused results

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

## Output

Returns real-time HackerNews discussion data including front-page velocity, developer sentiment signals, and engagement metrics for the queried technology, startup, or topic keyword.

## 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/shopify-intel-agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-8ee32046/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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