Hacker News tools for AI agents. Top stories, story details, comments thread, full-text search. Zero credentials. Public HN API. Install and use.
Hacker News MCP — by NeCL – Neural Engineering & Cognitive Logic is an MCP project maintained in the adjacentai/necl-hn-mcp repository. The maintainer describes its purpose as “Hacker News tools for AI agents. Top stories, story details, comments thread, full-text search. Zero credentials. Public HN API. Install and use”. Read the project documentation for the complete scope.
The project provides a local client configuration using uvx. Follow the repository’s build and installation steps before copying it, and replace example paths with the paths on your own computer.
Project documentation · Repository · Discovery listing. This profile records the public documentation checked on 2026-10-08.
{
"mcpServers": {
"necl-hn": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"--from",
"git+https://github.com/adjacentai/necl-hn-mcp.git",
"necl-hn-mcp"
]
}
}
}From the project documentation. Replace placeholders and example paths before connecting.
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