# HackerNews & Developer Ecosystem Real-Time Sentiment Pulse

> HackerNews & Developer Ecosystem Real-Time Sentiment Pulse is a paid API for AI agents from token-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 community sentiment for any technology, startup, framework, or AI model.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://token-intel.agentdiet.dev/v1/hackernews-trends?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: MPP
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-23
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Provider: token-intel.agentdiet.dev
- Website: https://token-intel.agentdiet.dev
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/token-intel-agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-bfe60bb0
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_6fLfLZl0dgSfrq9OfsGaN

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 token-intel-agentdiet-dev-hackernews-developer-ecosystem-real-time-bfe60bb0 -d '<json body>'
```

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

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time, developer-community-specific sentiment and trending signals from HackerNews — particularly for tech frameworks, AI models, developer tools, or startups. Prefer this over general social media sentiment tools when the target audience is specifically technical developers and hackers, and when front-page velocity or discussion thread depth matters.

## Known failure modes

- Empty or overly broad query returns low-signal results
- Very niche or misspelled topic may return no HackerNews matches
- Payment failure (HTTP 402) if x402 USDC micropayment is not properly attached
- Rate limiting or timeout if HackerNews API is temporarily unavailable
- Ambiguous keyword (e.g. 'Apple') may conflate multiple 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://token-intel.agentdiet.dev/v1/hackernews-trends)

## Output

Returns real-time HackerNews discussion data for the queried topic, including front-page velocity metrics, community sentiment signals, and relevant discussion threads from the developer ecosystem.

## 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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