Hacker News MCP Server
Updated June 2026The Hacker News MCP server, built by paabloLC (Community), provides the Hacker News MCP server gives Claude, Cursor, and other MCP clients live access to Hacker News so an AI assistant can pull the latest stories, comment threads, and user profiles into a conversation. It is community-built and best for Search.
by paabloLC (Community)
About
The Hacker News MCP server gives Claude, Cursor, and other MCP clients live access to Hacker News so an AI assistant can pull the latest stories, comment threads, and user profiles into a conversation. This community server (paabloLC/mcp-hacker-news, TypeScript) acts as a thin, well-behaved bridge over the official Firebase-backed Hacker News API — it does not scrape the site, so results match what you see on news.ycombinator.com. It exposes standard MCP tools for fetching top, new, best, Ask HN, Show HN, and job stories, retrieving a specific item with its nested comment tree, and looking up a user's karma, bio, and submission history. That makes it useful for tracking what is trending in the developer and startup community, summarizing long comment discussions, monitoring a launch or a topic, or feeding fresh HN context into research and content workflows. Installation is zero-config: point your client at `npx -y mcp-hacker-news` (Node.js 18+ required) and it runs over stdio with no API key or authentication, since the Hacker News API is public and read-only. Note this is a lower-star community project rather than an official Y Combinator release — it is a lightweight, dependency-free option that is easy to audit and self-host if you prefer.
Installation
npx -y mcp-hacker-newsCategories
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