# 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, library, or AI model keyword.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://shopify-intel.agentdiet.dev/v1/hackernews-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-ff0590d0
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_8T_zGaX5v8mZ-VKTJlyFk

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-ff0590d0
```

Example prompt: What's the live HackerNews sentiment and front-page velocity right now for 'LangChain' — are developers excited, skeptical, or tired of it?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time, developer-community-specific sentiment rather than general social media sentiment. It is best suited for technology, framework, startup, or AI model topics where the HackerNews audience (professional developers and technical founders) is the relevant signal. Prefer this over Twitter/Reddit sentiment tools when the target audience is specifically the technical developer ecosystem.

## Known failure modes

- Empty or vague query string returns no meaningful results
- Very niche or misspelled keyword yields sparse or zero matching discussions
- HackerNews API unavailability causes degraded or stale data
- Rate limiting or payment failure (HTTP 402) blocks the request
- Ambiguous keyword (e.g. 'apple') may conflate unrelated topics

## 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-trends)

## Output

Returns structured data reflecting live HackerNews discussion activity for the queried keyword, including sentiment indicators, front-page velocity metrics, and summaries of current developer opinion drawn from active HackerNews threads.

## 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-ff0590d0/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from shopify-intel.agentdiet.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/shopify-intel.agentdiet.dev/llms.txt)