Hacker News MCP Server
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About Hacker News MCP Server
MCP Server for Hackernews
Basic information
Config
Add this server to your MCP-compatible client using the configuration below.
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-hn": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@smithery/cli",
"install",
"mcp-hn",
"--client",
"claude"
]
}
}
}Tools
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Overview
What is Hacker News MCP Server?
It is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides tools for fetching information from Hacker News. It is designed for use with MCP clients like Claude Desktop.
How to use Hacker News MCP Server?
Install via Smithery using npx -y @smithery/cli install mcp-hn --client claude or manually add it to your Claude Desktop configuration file. The server provides tools that can be invoked with natural language prompts.
Key features of Hacker News MCP Server?
- Fetch top, new, ask_hn, show_hn stories
- Get comments associated with a story
- Search stories by query
- Retrieve user info from Hacker News
- Integrates with the Puppeteer MCP server
Use cases of Hacker News MCP Server?
- Get the top stories of the day
- Read comments on a specific story and summarize them
- Search for stories about a topic (e.g., careers in AI)
- Look up what a specific user
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