# Hacker News

> Use this tool when you need to search and retrieve top stories from Hacker News, solving problems such as staying up-to-date on trending tech news and discovering popular content. It takes search queries as input and returns relevant top stories from the Hacker News platform as output. Use it when you want to quickly find and explore the most popular and discussed topics in the tech community.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/yintokey-hackernews  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/yintokey-hackernews

## Description

Integrates with Hacker News to search and retrieve top stories. Provides basic access to popular content on the Hacker News platform through a simple search interface.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.65
- **Verification tier:** scanned
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-01

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** search
- **Updated:** 2026-09-01

## Source

- **Source listing:** [PulseMCP](https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/yintokey-hackernews)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/yintokey/mcp_hackernews>

## 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": "yintokey-hackernews"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/yintokey-hackernews` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/yintokey-hackernews/pull`

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