# MCP Hacker News

> Use this tool when you need to integrate live Hacker News data into AI applications, enabling interaction with posts, comments, and users via standardized Model Context Protocol endpoints. It solves problems of data fetching and interaction for AI tools like Claude and Cursor, providing real-time access to Hacker News content. This tool is ideal for use cases requiring up-to-date social news data, with inputs of MCP requests and outputs of relevant Hacker News data.

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

## Description

A Model Context Protocol server that enables AI tools like Claude and Cursor to fetch and interact with live Hacker News data (posts, comments, users) via standardized MCP endpoints.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.96
- **Verification tier:** verified
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-28

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** other
- **Updated:** 2026-09-28

## Source

- **Source listing:** [Glama](https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/e5r7euc159)
- **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-mcp-hacker-news"
    }
  }
}
```

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

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