Retrieve any Hacker News post or comment by providing its numeric ID. Access the item's content without manual browsing.
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"A server for browsing Hacker News" matching MCP tools:
- Retrieve the current Hacker News front page as normalized JSON with rank, title, URL, points, author, comments, and timestamp. Use for tech trend detection and news agents.MIT
- Submit stories to Hacker News by providing a title and URL for link posts, or a title and text for Ask HN posts.MITDestructive
- Get a daily morning brief with today's weather for a chosen city and the top 5 Hacker News stories. No API keys required.MIT
- Retrieve top Hacker News stories with titles, URLs, and scores using real-time data from the public API. Returns structured results with quality metrics and verifiable citations.-
- Retrieve top Hacker News story IDs using Firebase API for data analysis. Returns structured data with quality metrics and verifiable citations for audit purposes.-
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- FlicenseNot gradedqualityCmaintenanceProvides read access to Hacker News through tools for fetching top, best, and new stories and looking up individual items by ID, for use with MCP clients like Claude Desktop and Cursor.-
- AlicenseAqualityDmaintenanceA Model Context Protocol server that enables AI tools like Claude and Cursor to fetch and interact with live Hacker News data (posts, comments, users) via standardized MCP endpoints.1176 npm34MIT
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- Retrieve Hacker News top stories to track trending tech topics and community sentiment. Each story includes title, score, comment count, author, and URL for quick analysis.MIT
- Fetch the current top 5 Hacker News stories as a markdown list. Use this when you need a quick overview of what is popular on Hacker News.MIT
- Fetch Hacker News comments for a story URL or ID to see community opinions and discussion details.MIT
- Fetch a user's Hacker News comments, newest first, with pagination support. Use next_page to load additional pages of comments.MIT
- Retrieve the IDs of the newest Hacker News stories, with pagination and format selection.MIT
- Get the current largest item ID on Hacker News to identify the highest-numbered post or comment.MIT
- Authenticate to Hacker News by providing your username and password. Session cookies are saved to disk for persistent login across restarts.MIT
- Fetch new Hacker News stories. Configure a limit from 1 to 50 to get as many as you need.MIT
- Find Hacker News stories and comments using Algolia's full-text engine, with relevance or date sorting.MIT
- Retrieve threaded comments for a Hacker News story, with configurable depth and limit.MIT
- Retrieve detailed information about any Hacker News item, including stories, comments, jobs, and polls, using its unique ID.MIT
- Search Hacker News for tech discussions and links. Get titles, URLs, points, comments, and dates. No API key needed.MIT
- Retrieve current Hacker News stories by category and limit, returning title, link, score, author, and comment count for tech news or Ask/Show HN queries.MIT
- Post comments on Hacker News stories or reply to existing comments. Requires login credentials to submit text to a specific item ID.MITDestructive
- Retrieve a paginated list of the best story IDs from Hacker News, with configurable limit and output format.MIT