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MCP Claude Hackernews
imprvhub/mcp-claude-hackernews
This project is an integration tool that lets Claude Desktop interact with Hacker News via the MCP protocol, supporting browsing latest/top stories, viewing details and comments.
Install
Client configuration
{
"mcpServers": {
"hackerNews": {
"command": "node",
"args": [
"<value>"
]
}
}
}- GitHub stars
- 2
- Author
- @imprvhub
- Category
- Research & Data, Developer Tools
- License
- MPL-2.0
- Updated
- Oct 6, 2026
About MCP Claude Hackernews
An integration that allows Claude Desktop to interact with Hacker News using the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Features
Browse latest stories from Hacker News
View top and best-rated stories
Search stories by keyword, by relevance or most recent (Algolia HN Search API)
Get story details
Read comments for stories, capped so a busy thread cannot flood the context
Clean formatting of Hacker News content for better readability, including HTML entity decoding
Tools (6)
hn_latest
Get the most recent stories from Hacker News
hn_top
Get the top-ranked stories from Hacker News
hn_best
Get the best stories from Hacker News
hn_search
Search stories by keyword
hn_story
Get detailed information about a specific story
hn_comments
Get top-level comments for a story
Details on this page are taken from the project's README. Open README
Supported clients
Clients mentioned in this server's README:
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