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# Hacker News MCP Server
[](https://smithery.ai/server/mcp-hn)
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides tools for fetching information from Hacker News.
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## 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
### Installing via Smithery
To install Hacker News MCP Server for Claude Desktop automatically via [Smithery](https://smithery.ai/server/mcp-hn):
```bash
npx -y @smithery/cli install mcp-hn --client claude
```
### 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:
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-hn": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["mcp-hn"]
}
}
}
```