Hacker News

By thumbsupordown

The Hacker News MCP server connects AI agents to Hacker News. Agents can fetch top, new, Ask HN, and Show HN stories, retrieve a story's details and its comment thread, search stories by query, and look up user information — giving assistants access to tech news, discussions, and community sentiment.

Tools

get_stories

Fetch top, new, Ask HN, or Show HN stories from HN.

get_story_info

Fetch a Hacker News story's details and comment thread.

get_user_info

Fetch profile information about a Hacker News user.

search_stories

Search Hacker News stories using free-text query terms.

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