📌Overview

Purpose: To provide a comprehensive Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for efficiently fetching and interacting with information from Hacker News.

Overview: The Hacker News MCP Server offers a set of tools that facilitate the retrieval and exploration of stories and user activities from Hacker News. It simplifies the process of accessing various types of articles and associated comments, enhancing user engagement with the platform.

Key Features:

• get_stories: Fetches various categories of Hacker News stories (top, new, ask_hn, show_hn), allowing users to access fresh content quickly.

• get_story_info: Retrieves comments related to a specific story, enabling users to delve deeper into discussions surrounding articles.

• search_stories: Allows users to search for stories based on specific queries, enhancing the ability to find relevant information.

• get_user_info: Provides insights into user activities, helping to track contributions and interactions of specific users on the platform.

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Hacker News MCP Server

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

Tools

• get_stories: Fetch top, new, ask_hn, and show_hn stories
• get_story_info: Fetch comments associated with a story
• search_stories: Search for stories by query
• get_user_info: Fetch user info

Example Usage

Use prompts like the following:

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:

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

Claude Desktop:

Update the following configuration file:

• On MacOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
• On Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

Add the following for production:

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