The mcp-hn server is a Hacker News API wrapper that allows you to:
- Fetch stories: Get top, new, Ask HN, or Show HN stories
- Search stories: Find stories by text query
- Retrieve story details: Access detailed information about specific stories, including comments
- Access user information: Get user profiles and their submitted stories
Allows web scraping and browser automation, enabling the AI to browse articles mentioned on Hacker News and gather additional context beyond the HN comments.
Hacker News MCP Server
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides tools for fetching information from Hacker News.
Tools
get_stories
Fetching (top, new, ask_hn, show_hn) storiesget_story_info
Fetching comments associated with a storysearch_stories
Searching for stories by queryget_user_info
Fetching user info
Example Usage
Use prompts like the following:
A more detailed example with the puppeteer MCP server:
Quickstart
Claude Desktop:
Update the following:
On MacOS: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
On Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
With the following for production:
You must be authenticated.
remote-capable server
The server can be hosted and run remotely because it primarily relies on remote services or has no dependency on the local environment.
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides tools for searching and fetching information from Hacker News.
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