Schema | Hacker News MCP Server

Hacker News MCP Server

Describes the environment variables required to run the server.

Name	Required	Description	Default
No arguments

Guidance the server publishes about itself, which clients place ahead of the tool catalog so the model reads it before choosing anything.

This server publishes no instructions, or was last inspected before Glama recorded them.

Features and capabilities supported by this server

Protocol revision2025-11-25

Capability	Details
`tools`	{ "listChanged": true }

Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions

Name	Description
hn_get_top_storiesA	Retrieve IDs of the current top stories on Hacker News.
hn_get_new_storiesA	Retrieve IDs of the newest stories on Hacker News.
hn_get_best_storiesA	Retrieve IDs of the best stories on Hacker News.
hn_get_ask_storiesA	Retrieve IDs of the latest Ask HN stories.
hn_get_show_storiesA	Retrieve IDs of the latest Show HN stories.
hn_get_job_storiesA	Retrieve IDs of the latest Job stories.
hn_get_itemA	Get detailed information about a single Hacker News item (story, comment, job, poll, etc.) by its ID.
hn_get_userB	Retrieve details for a Hacker News user profile by username.
hn_get_updatesB	Retrieve recently updated item and profile IDs.
hn_get_max_itemA	Get the current largest item ID on Hacker News.

Interactive templates invoked by user choice

Name	Description
No prompts

Contextual data attached and managed by the client

Name	Description
No resources

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