Browse Hacker News feeds, threads, and user profiles with full-text search via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.
Hn-mcp-server source profile. From the maintainer documentation: “Browse Hacker News feeds, threads, and user profiles with full-text search via MCP. STDIO or Streamable HTTP.”
The project provides a local client configuration using bunx. Follow the repository’s build and installation steps before copying it, and replace example paths with the paths on your own computer.
The example declares MCP_TRANSPORT_TYPE, MCP_LOG_LEVEL. Secret-looking values have been replaced with placeholders. Required and optional labels are shown only when the documentation states them.
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Check the linked publisher documentation and your connected client's tool list. Names and availability can vary with the server version and account permissions.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| hn_get_stories | Fetch stories from an HN feed (top, new, best, ask, show, jobs), with title, URL, score, author, and comment count |
| hn_get_thread | Get an item and its comment tree as a threaded discussion, with depth and comment-count controls and a cursor to page through long threads |
| hn_get_user | Fetch a user profile with karma, about, and optionally a page of resolved submissions |
| hn_search_content | Search stories, comments, polls, and jobs via Algolia by keyword, by filters alone, or both — type, author, parent story, date range, and minimum points |
{
"mcpServers": {
"hn-mcp-server": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "bunx",
"args": [
"@cyanheads/hn-mcp-server@latest"
],
"env": {
"MCP_TRANSPORT_TYPE": "stdio",
"MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "info"
}
}
}
}From the project documentation. Replace placeholders and example paths before connecting.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| MCP_TRANSPORT_TYPE | Declared in the maintainer’s client configuration. | Check documentation |
| MCP_LOG_LEVEL | Declared in the maintainer’s client configuration. | Check documentation |
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