Hacker News MCP Server

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

Related MCP server: MCP Hub Tools

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