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erithwik/mcp-hn
๐ โ๏ธ - Search Hacker News, get top stories and more
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claude mcp add mcp-hn -- npx -y mcp-hn
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- first seen 2026-10-09 ยท last seen 2026-10-16 ยท seen 32ร ยท listed by 10 sources
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Hacker News MCP Server
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A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides tools for fetching information from Hacker News.
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:
A more detailed example with the puppeteer MCP server:
Quickstart
Installing via Smithery
To install Hacker News MCP Server for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:
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:
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:
A more detailed example with the puppeteer MCP server:
Quickstart
Installing via Smithery
To install Hacker News MCP Server for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:
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:
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