Hacker News
This Hacker News MCP server, developed by Ricky, provides tools for fetching information from news.ycombinator.com. Built with Python using the MCP CLI, it offers functionality to retrieve different types of stories, search for stories, fetch story details including comments, and get user information. By abstracting Hacker News interactions into a standardized MCP interface, it enables AI systems to easily analyze and work with HN content. This implementation is particularly useful for applications involving tech news aggregation, trend analysis, and community engagement tracking, facilitating use cases such as personalized news feeds, startup research, and discussion topic generation.
Composite of vulnerability cleanliness, spec conformance, provenance, stability, and usage signals — scanned and weighted by Cognium. Human and agent signals are tracked separately. Last scanned 2026-09-28.
Scan details: Circle-IR · 2026-09-28 · Appeal
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- Version
- 1.0.0
- Skill type
- atomic
- Execution layer
- mcp-remote
- Category
- search
- Source
- PulseMCP
- Repository
- github.com/erithwik/mcp-hn
- Author type
- human
- Last scanned
- 2026-09-28
- Updated
- 2026-09-28
Use via MCP
Resolve Hacker News from your agent
Streamable HTTP transport at https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp. No auth for read tools. Discovery: .well-known/mcp.json.
One command in your shell — Claude Code wires it up and verifies the connection. Run /mcp in any session to confirm.
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp--scope user for --scope project to commit it to .mcp.json.