# Hacker News MCP Server

> Use this tool when you need to fetch and analyze data from Hacker News, solving problems such as staying up-to-date on trending stories, tracking user activity, and searching for specific topics. It provides inputs such as story types and search queries, and outputs story data, comments, and user information. Ideal for use cases requiring real-time data scraping and analysis from the Hacker News platform.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/mikeysrecipes-mcp-hn  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/mikeysrecipes-mcp-hn

## Description

Provides tools to fetch top/new/ask/show stories, story comments, search stories, and get user info from Hacker News.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.69
- **Verification tier:** scanned
- **Last scanned:** 2026-08-31

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** search
- **Updated:** 2026-08-31

## Source

- **Source listing:** [Glama](https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/dp7kwjhjbf)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/mikeysrecipes/mcp-hn>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "mikeysrecipes-mcp-hn"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/mikeysrecipes-mcp-hn` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/mikeysrecipes-mcp-hn/pull`

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