# HackerNews & Developer Ecosystem Real-Time Sentiment Pulse

> HackerNews & Developer Ecosystem Real-Time Sentiment Pulse is a paid API for AI agents from shopify-spy.agentdiet.dev, paid per call via MPP, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-28).

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

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://shopify-spy.agentdiet.dev/v1/hackernews-velocity-radar?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-28
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: shopify-spy.agentdiet.dev
- Website: https://shopify-spy.agentdiet.dev
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/shopify-spy-agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-6bf2e1f5
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_q98uH1_ZTJu7nxVCagg6d

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-spy-agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-6bf2e1f5 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What's the current HackerNews sentiment and front-page velocity for 'Llama 3' right now — are developers excited, skeptical, or ignoring it?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time developer community sentiment specifically from HackerNews — particularly for gauging how technical audiences are reacting to a technology launch, framework, AI model, or startup. Prefer this over general web search when you want structured velocity and sentiment signals from the developer ecosystem rather than broad media coverage.

## Known failure modes

- Empty or too-generic query returns low-signal or no results
- HackerNews API rate limiting may cause incomplete data
- Very new or niche topics may have no active discussions
- Payment failure via x402 returns 402 status before execution
- Transient upstream HackerNews API outage returns error response

## 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-spy.agentdiet.dev/v1/hackernews-velocity-radar)

## Output

Returns aggregated real-time data from live HackerNews discussions including front-page velocity metrics, discussion thread summaries, and developer sentiment signals for the queried keyword or topic.

## 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-spy-agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-6bf2e1f5/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from shopify-spy.agentdiet.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/shopify-spy.agentdiet.dev/llms.txt)