Discourse Split

{
  "asOf": "2026-10-13T05:00:00.000Z",
  "cached": false,
  "caveats": [
    "Not a poll: self-selected posters on two tech-leaning, US-heavy networks; not representative of any population.",
    "Keyword search misses posts that use other words and can include off-topic posts.",
    "Bots, coordinated posting and brigading can move the numbers; one-vote-per-account and per-thread caps only reduce this.",
    "Stance labels come from an automated classifier and are sometimes wrong (sarcasm, quotes, negation)."
  ],
  "classifier": "none (illustrative)",
  "illustrative": true,
  "label": "online discourse sample, NOT a poll",
  "method": "Keyword search of public Hacker News comments (Algolia) and Bluesky posts within the window; one post per account, at most 10 per thread; each post (truncated to 280 chars, never returned) is labeled with one side or neutral by a stance classifier; shares are over decided posts with Wilson 95% intervals. Deleted links are removed from the sample, also when a cached answer is served (shares and n are not recomputed).",
  "n_classified": 84,
  "n_fetched": 145,
  "n_neutral": 61,
  "note": "Format sample only: counts are illustrative, NOT measured. No stance classifier is configured on this server yet, so no real answer has been recorded; this sample will be replaced by a real recording. No post text or usernames are ever returned.",
  "ok": true,
  "question": "tabs or spaces for indentation",
  "sample": [],
  "sides": [
    {
      "ci95": [
        0.3171,
        0.5235
      ],
      "label": "tabs",
      "n": 35,
      "share": 0.4167
    },
    {
      "ci95": [
        0.4765,
        0.6829
      ],
      "label": "spaces",
      "n": 49,
      "share": 0.5833
    }
  ],
  "source": "discourse-split",
  "sources": {
    "bsky": 32,
    "hn": 52
  },
  "window": {
    "days": 30,
    "from": "2026-09-13T05:00:00.000Z",
    "to": "2026-10-13T05:00:00.000Z"
  }
}

# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://horizonpulse.dev/api/discourse/split?q=tabs+or+spaces+for+indentation&sides=tabs%2Cspaces'

# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - 'https://horizonpulse.dev/api/discourse/split?q=tabs+or+spaces+for+indentation&sides=tabs%2Cspaces' \
  | grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decode

// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

// Pays at most $0.03 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.03" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.03 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhorizonpulse.dev%2Fapi%2Fdiscourse%2Fsplit
const res = await pay("https://horizonpulse.dev/api/discourse/split?q=tabs+or+spaces+for+indentation&sides=tabs%2Cspaces");
console.log(res.status, await res.text());

# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client

# Pays at most $0.03 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.03"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.get("https://horizonpulse.dev/api/discourse/split?q=tabs+or+spaces+for+indentation&sides=tabs%2Cspaces")
    print(res.status_code, res.text)