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by erithwik
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MIT License
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  • 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) stories
  • get_story_info Fetching comments associated with a story
  • search_stories Searching for stories by query
  • get_user_info Fetching user info

Example Usage

Use prompts like the following:

User: Get the top stories of today Output: Uses `get_stories` tool and returns a story about AI User: What does the details of the story today that talks about the future of AI Output: Uses `get_story_info` tool based on the results of the previous tool User: What has the user `pg` been up to? Output: Uses `get_user_info` tool and returns a summary of the user's activity User: What does hackernews say about careers in AI? Output: Uses `search_stories` tool and returns a summary of the comments

A more detailed example with the puppeteer MCP server:

User: What are the top stories of today? Output: Uses `get_stories` tool and returns a story about AI User: Can you use the puppeteer tool to read the article about <AI> and also use the hackernews tool to view the comments and give me a summary of what the main comments are about the article? Output: Uses puppeteer tool to read the article about AI and then uses the `get_story_info` hn tool to get the comments and returns a summary of the comments

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:

{ "mcpServers": { "mcp-hn": { "command": "uvx", "args": ["mcp-hn"] } } }

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license - permissive license
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quality - confirmed to work

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.

Tools

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides tools for searching and fetching information from Hacker News.

  1. Tools
    1. Example Usage
      1. Quickstart
        1. Claude Desktop:

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