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MCP Hn

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hackernewssearchdata-extractionnews

MCP server providing tools to fetch and search Hacker News stories, comments, and user info.

Quick Install

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Copy the AI prompt to install this server into Claude Code, Cursor, or another agent β€” or use 1-click editor setup below.

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Client Config & Setup

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Target File:~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "erithwik-mcp-hn": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@smithery/cli"
      ]
    }
  }
}

πŸ’‘ Paste the JSON block into your client's configuration file under mcpServers, then restart the application.

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Overview

This MCP server enables AI agents to interact with Hacker News by fetching top, new, ask_hn, and show_hn stories, retrieving comments for stories, searching stories by query, and obtaining user information. It is suitable for use cases requiring real-time or historical Hacker News data integration into AI workflows. The server supports multi-step interactions combining story retrieval with comment summarization.

Use cases

β€’Fetch top or new Hacker News stories
β€’Retrieve comments associated with a specific story
β€’Search Hacker News stories by keyword or topic
β€’Get detailed information about a Hacker News user
β€’Combine story reading with comment analysis for summaries

Key features

β€’Get top, new, ask_hn, and show_hn stories
β€’Fetch comments for a given story
β€’Search stories by query
β€’Retrieve user profile and activity information

Capabilities & Tool Schemas (4) ~13 tokensApproximate context cost of this server’s tool schemas (~4 chars/token), before any tool is called. Actual usage depends on your client and model.Self-reported Self-reportedParsed from the repository README, not verified against a live server β€” may be incomplete or out of date.

Inspect callable tools, capabilities, and parameters exposed to AI agents by MCP Hn.

get_stories

Callable MCP tool function

get_story_info

Callable MCP tool function

search_stories

Callable MCP tool function

get_user_info

Callable MCP tool function

Documentation Overview

Hacker News MCP Server

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A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides tools for fetching information from Hacker News.

mcp-hn MCP server

Tools

  • get_stories Fetching (top, new, ask_hn, show_hn) stories
  • get_story_info Fetching comments associated with a story
  • search_stories Searching for stories by query
  • get_user_info Fetching user info

Example Usage

Use prompts like the following:

Code
User: Get the top stories of today
  Output: Uses `get_stories` tool and returns a story about AI
User: What does the details of the story today that talks about the future of AI
  Output: Uses `get_story_info` tool based on the results of the previous tool
User: What has the user `pg` been up to?
  Output: Uses `get_user_info` tool and returns a summary of the user's activity
User: What does hackernews say about careers in AI?
  Output: Uses `search_stories` tool and returns a summary of the comments

A more detailed example with the puppeteer MCP server:

Code
User: What are the top stories of today?
  Output: Uses `get_stories` tool and returns a story about AI
User: Can you use the puppeteer tool to read the article about <AI> and also use the hackernews tool to view the comments and give me a summary of what the main comments are about the article?
  Output: Uses puppeteer tool to read the article about AI and then uses the `get_story_info` hn tool to get the comments and returns a summary of the comments

Quickstart

Installing via Smithery

To install Hacker News MCP Server for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:

Terminal
npx -y @smithery/cli install mcp-hn --client claude

Claude Desktop:

Update the following:

On MacOS: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

On Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

With the following for production:

config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-hn": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["mcp-hn"]
    }
  }
}

Read the full README β†’View source on GitHub β†’

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You can fetch top, new, ask_hn, and show_hn stories using the get_stories tool.

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TransportSTDIO
RuntimeNode.js
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ClientsClaude Desktop
Last updatedAug 9, 2026
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