# 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, framework, startup, or AI model keyword.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://shopify-intel.agentdiet.dev/v1/tech-trends?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-f19eeeed
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_CRnf8K3JUyiIj40nvKC9J

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-f19eeeed
```

Example prompt: What's the current developer sentiment and HackerNews buzz around the Svelte framework right now — how fast is it trending and what are people saying?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time developer community sentiment specifically from HackerNews — particularly for gauging how a technology, framework, startup, or AI model is being received by the technical community right now, including front-page velocity as a proxy for buzz intensity.

## Known failure modes

- Empty or very niche query keyword may return no HackerNews results or sparse sentiment data
- Payment failure via x402 may block access to the endpoint
- HackerNews API downtime could result in stale or unavailable data
- Overly broad query terms may produce noisy or ambiguous sentiment results
- Rate limiting or quota exhaustion may return error responses

## 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/tech-trends)

## Output

Returns a structured object containing live HackerNews discussion data, front-page velocity metrics, and developer sentiment signals for the queried technology, startup, framework, or AI model 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

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