MCP Claude Hackernews MCP Server

MCP Claude Hackernews becomes available to MCP clients through the mcp claude hackernews mcp server. Model Context Protocol server for Hacker News using Claude Desktop.

What MCP Claude Hackernews does

Key capabilities

• Browse latest stories from Hacker News
• View top and best-rated stories
• Get story details
• Read comments for stories
• Clean formatting of Hacker News content for better readability

Tools it exposes

Once connected, the assistant can call these 6 tools directly:

• hn_latest — Get the most recent stories from Hacker News
• hn_top — Get the top-ranked stories from Hacker News
• hn_best — Get the best stories from Hacker News
• hn_story — Get detailed information about a specific story
• hn_comments — Get comments for a story
• Configuration — Edit this file to add the Hacker News MCP configuration. If the file doesn't exist, create it:

Installing the mcp claude hackernews mcp server

Setup follows the standard MCP pattern: clone or install the server, then register it in your client's configuration file and restart the client. The configuration snippets on this page cover Claude Desktop, Claude Code and Cursor.

Requirements

• Node.js 16 or higher - Claude Desktop - Internet connection to access Hacker News API

Where it fits

Developer-tool servers are usually the first ones people connect, because they turn "help me with this code" into an assistant that can actually read the repo and act on it. MCP Claude Hackernews sits in that group, and the shape of its toolset — hn_latest, hn_top, hn_best among others — tells you what it is really for. Worth comparing against the other developer tools servers in this directory before you commit to one, since several overlap in scope but differ sharply in setup cost and permissions.

Practical notes

• This server runs locally, so it operates with whatever access your machine and its credentials already have. Scope that deliberately rather than by default.
• Maintained by imprvhub, written in Go.
• MCP clients ask for confirmation before each tool call by default. Keep that on while you learn what the mcp claude hackernews mcp server actually does with your data.
• Every entry in this directory is reviewed by hand before it goes live, and details are checked against the project's own documentation.