HN front-page, Algolia full-text search, and Show HN launch tracker.
If you already use Hacker News Trending, the hacker news trending mcp server is the piece that lets your assistant work with it directly. HN front-page, Algolia full-text search, and Show HN launch tracker.
Hosted MCP server over Hacker News. Pull current front-page / best / new / Ask HN / Show HN / job stories, run full-text Algolia search across stories and comments with point/age filters, track recent Show HN launches, and fetch individual items or user profiles. For tech-trend, indie-launch, and Show-HN-watcher LLMs.
The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:
hn_top — kind?, limit?hn_search — query, tags?, min_points?, days_ago?hn_show_recent — min_points?, days?hn_item — idhn_user — usernameBecause this one is hosted, setup is mostly authentication — you point your client at the endpoint and approve access. Nothing runs on your machine, so there is no runtime to keep patched.
Among the developer tooling options, the useful question is rarely "what can it do" but "what does it cost you to run" — permissions, credentials, and how much of your context its toolset consumes. Hacker News Trending's toolset — hn_top, hn_search, hn_show_recent and 2 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by guptaprakhariitr; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
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| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| hn_top | kind?, limit? |
| hn_search | query, tags?, min_points?, days_ago? |
| hn_show_recent | min_points?, days? |
| hn_item | id |
| hn_user | username |
Or wire it into your MCP client:
```jsonc
{
"mcpServers": {
"hn-trending": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@insnapsprakhar/hn-trending-mcp"]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
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