Hackernews MCP Server

Hackernews mcp mcp server lets Claude, Cursor and other MCP clients work with Hackernews MCP directly. A Model Context Protocol server for accessing Hacker News data.

What Hackernews MCP does

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides tools to fetch and interact with Hacker News content. This server enables AI assistants to access real-time Hacker News data including top stories, story details, comments, and search functionality.

Tools it exposes

Once connected, the assistant can call these 4 tools directly:

• get_top_stories — The get_top_stories tool exposed by this server
• get_story_details — The get_story_details tool exposed by this server
• get_story_comments — The get_story_comments tool exposed by this server
• search_stories — The search_stories tool exposed by this server

Installing the hackernews mcp 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.

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. Hackernews MCP sits in that group, and the shape of its toolset — get_top_stories, get_story_details, get_story_comments 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 GeorgeNance, written in TypeScript.
• MCP clients ask for confirmation before each tool call by default. Keep that on while you learn what the hackernews mcp 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.