Career Site Job Feed vs MCP Hn

In-depth architectural comparison of the Career Site Job Feed and MCP Hn MCP servers. Compare execution transports, security boundaries, tool capabilities, quality scores, and ready-to-paste client installation snippets for Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code.

Which MCP Server Should You Choose?

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Choose Career Site Job Feed when:

• You need dedicated capabilities in the Search & Data Extraction domain.
• You prefer remote streaming HTTP/SSE transport architecture.
• Your security boundary fits: API Key required (Paid Service).
• Primary tools included: Live ATS job-posting retrieval, Coverage of 27,681 company boards, Support for 10 applicant tracking systems.

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Choose MCP Hn when:

• You need dedicated capabilities in the Search & Data Extraction domain.
• You prefer local stdio subprocess transport architecture.
• Your security boundary fits: No auth required (Free / Open Source).
• Primary tools included: get_stories, get_story_info, search_stories.

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Feature & Specification Comparison

Specification	C Career Site Job Feed VerifiedSearch & Data Extraction	MCP Hn erithwik Search & Data Extraction
Summary	Read job postings live from each employer's own applicant tracking system at run time — Greenhouse, Lever, Workday, Ashby, Workable, SmartRecruiters, Breezy, Personio, Pinpoint and Rippling. 27,681 company boards, one normalized schema, no stored index so a row cannot outlive the posting. Remote MCP endpoint: https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=starbright_overlap/ats-job-feed (the auto-generated snippet above shows the store page URL, not the MCP endpoint)	An MCP server to search Hacker News, get top stories, and more.

Tools & Capabilities Breakdown

Ready-to-Paste Client Configurations

Paste either (or both) of these JSON server blocks into your client config file (e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json).

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "career-site-job-feed": {
      "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=starbright_overlap/ats-job-feed"
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "erithwik-mcp-hn": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-hn"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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