# Hacker News

> Use this tool when you need to fetch and analyze content from Hacker News, such as retrieving stories, searching for specific topics, or fetching user information. It solves problems related to tech news aggregation, trend analysis, and community engagement tracking, and provides a standardized interface for AI systems to work with HN content. It takes in queries and parameters as inputs and outputs relevant story details, comments, and user information, making it ideal for use cases like personalized news feeds and startup research.

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

## Description

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.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.94
- **Verification tier:** verified
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-28

## Facts

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

## Source

- **Source listing:** [PulseMCP](https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/ricky-hacker-news)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/erithwik/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": "ricky-hacker-news"
    }
  }
}
```

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

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