Integrate with Hacker News to track ai trends, analyze artificial intelligence trends, and engage with top tech stories
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Hacker News reduced integration guesswork — categories and install configs on the listing matched the upstream repo.
Hacker News has been reliable for tool-calling workflows; the MCP profile page is a good permalink for internal docs.
I recommend Hacker News for teams standardizing on MCP; the explainx.ai page compares cleanly with sibling servers.
Hacker News is a well-scoped MCP server in the explainx.ai directory — install snippets and categories matched our Claude Code setup.
According to our notes, Hacker News benefits from clear Model Context Protocol framing — fewer ambiguous “AI plugin” claims.
According to our notes, Hacker News benefits from clear Model Context Protocol framing — fewer ambiguous “AI plugin” claims.
We wired Hacker News into a staging workspace; the listing’s GitHub and npm pointers saved time versus hunting across READMEs.
Hacker News has been reliable for tool-calling workflows; the MCP profile page is a good permalink for internal docs.
We evaluated Hacker News against two servers with overlapping tools; this profile had the clearer scope statement.
Useful MCP listing: Hacker News is the kind of server we cite when onboarding engineers to host + tool permissions.
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Claude Desktop configuration
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-hn": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"mcp-hn"
]
}
}
}Retrieves live Hacker News data including stories, comments, and user profiles through the official Firebase API. Lets AI tools access and analyze current HN content with filtering options.
Hacker News is a community-built MCP server published by erithwik that provides AI assistants with tools and capabilities via the Model Context Protocol. Integrate with Hacker News to track ai trends, analyze artificial intelligence trends, and engage with top tech stories It is categorized under search web. This server exposes 4 tools that AI clients can invoke during conversations and coding sessions.
You can install Hacker News in your AI client of choice. Use the install panel on this page to get one-click setup for Cursor, Claude Desktop, VS Code, and other MCP-compatible clients. This server runs locally on your machine via the stdio transport.
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides tools for fetching information from Hacker News.
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get_stories Fetching (top, new, ask_hn, show_hn) storiesget_story_info Fetching comments associated with a storysearch_stories Searching for stories by queryget_user_info Fetching user infoUse 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
To install Hacker News MCP Server for Claude Desktop automatically via Smithery:
npx -y @smithery/cli install mcp-hn --client claude
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:
{
"mcpServers": {
"mcp-hn": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": ["mcp-hn"]
}
}
}
Time estimate: 20-40 minutes including configuration and testing
Prerequisites
Steps
Troubleshooting
✓ Do
✗ Don't
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Architecture
MCP server handles HTTP requests, HTML parsing, JavaScript rendering (if headless browser), and returns structured data to Claude.
Protocols
Compatibility
✓ Use when
Use for research automation, content monitoring, data aggregation from multiple sources, and when official APIs don't exist. Best for read-only information gathering.
✗ Avoid when
Avoid for sites with APIs (use API instead), sites that explicitly forbid scraping, when data is copyrighted, or for login-required content without proper authorization.