Prepares Hacker News discussions for summarization by language models like Claude.
HN Companion MCP server exists for a simple reason — assistants are far more useful when they can act on HN Companion directly instead of describing what you should do. Prepares Hacker News discussions for summarization by language models like Claude.
A Model Context Protocol (MCP) for summarizing Hacker News discussions using Claude.
This MCP fetches and processes Hacker News discussions, preparing them in a format that Claude can use to generate high-quality summaries. It handles both the hierarchical structure of comments and their metadata (scores, downvotes, etc.) to help Claude understand the relative importance and relationships of different comments.
The server ships on npm as @smithery/cli, so your MCP client can launch it on demand — there is no separate build step. Add the server block to your client's configuration, restart it, and the tools register themselves.
This sits in the developer tooling group, where several servers overlap in what they claim to do but differ sharply once you actually set them up. It is maintained by georgeck; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
This entry was verified against HN Companion's own documentation before publication; SyncDev keeps the directory reviewed rather than auto-generated.
{
"mcpServers": {
"hn-companion": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@smithery/cli"]
}
}
}Add to claude_desktop_config.json, then restart Claude Desktop.
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