Hacker News MCP Server

Name: Hacker News MCP Server
Author: erithwik

@erithwik

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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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