Hacker News MCP

Local · stdio

A community server for Hacker News: an agent fetches top and new stories, searches by keyword and looks up author info. It uses Hacker News's own public APIs — Firebase for base data and Algolia for full-text search. Four tools (get_stories, get_story_info, search_stories, get_user_info), no auth needed. A small but stable project (74 stars).

Why this server

Built on HN's own public APIs (Firebase + Algolia) — no keys, no middlemen
search_stories provides full-text search across the entire discussion history
Minimal dependencies — a plain stdio server with no external infrastructure
Only 74 stars — a small community, but the underlying API is stable and unchanging

Usage examples

Prompt: Show today's top 5 Hacker News stories about databases

Result: The agent called get_stories for the top type, then search_stories with the keyword "database" to filter.

Prompt: Find HN discussions about MCP and show their comment counts

Result: The agent called search_stories for "MCP", then get_story_info for each story to get comment counts.

Local server

This MCP runs locally on the user's machine (stdio), so availability isn't tracked — rely on reviews and the rating instead.

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