Fetches structured data from Hacker News, including top, new, ask, show, and job stories.
Fetches structured data from Hacker News, including top, new, ask, show, and job stories. The hacker news mcp server wraps that behind the Model Context Protocol, so an assistant can use it through 1 defined tool rather than through you.
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides tools for fetching stories from Hacker News. This server parses the HTML content from news.ycombinator.com and provides structured data for different types of stories (top, new, ask, show, jobs).
Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:
Configuration — For the Claude desktop app, add the server configuration to: json // ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) //Setup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client. The configuration blocks on this page cover the common clients.
Plenty of developer tooling servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. Hacker News's toolset — Configuration — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by pskill9; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
SyncDev reviews every entry in this directory against the project's own documentation before publishing, and revisits them as servers change.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Configuration | For the Claude desktop app, add the server configuration to: json // ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) // %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json (Windows) { "mcpServers": { "hac |
// ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS)
// %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json (Windows)
{
"mcpServers": {
"hacker-news": {
"command": "node",
"args": ["/path/to/hn-server/build/index.js"]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
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