# Hacker News

> Use this tool when you need to access and analyze content from Hacker News, a popular tech news platform, to stay current with industry discussions, research trends, or gather developer community insights. It provides efficient retrieval of stories, comments, user profiles, and job postings through a cached API with filtering and formatting options. Ideal for use cases like content research, trend analysis, and community monitoring, with outputs including formatted responses and original URLs.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/paablolc-hacker-news  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/paablolc-hacker-news

## Description

This MCP server provides access to Hacker News content through the official Firebase API, enabling AI assistants to retrieve stories, comments, user profiles, and job postings from the popular tech news platform. Built by Pablo LC using TypeScript with the MCP SDK, it features caching with 2-minute TTL for API efficiency, comprehensive story filtering (top, best, new, Ask HN, Show HN), user profile lookup with karma and submission history, comment thread retrieval with configurable depth, and formatted responses that include both original URLs and Hacker News discussion links. The implementation offers both tools for interactive querying and resources for bulk data access, with automatic filtering of deleted/dead content and relative timestamp formatting, making it valuable for content research, trend analysis, developer community insights, and staying current with tech industry discussions.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.65
- **Verification tier:** scanned
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-02

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** search
- **Updated:** 2026-09-02

## Source

- **Source listing:** [PulseMCP](https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/paablolc-hacker-news)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/paablolc/mcp-hacker-news>

## 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": "paablolc-hacker-news"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/paablolc-hacker-news` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/paablolc-hacker-news/pull`

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