erithwik/mcp-hn
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A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides tools for fetching information from Hacker News.
Tools
Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions
get_stories
Get stories from Hacker News. The options are top
, new
, ask_hn
, show_hn
for types of stories. This doesn't include the comments. Use get_story_info
to get the comments.
get_user_info
Get user info from Hacker News, including the stories they've submitted
search_stories
Search stories from Hacker News. It is generally recommended to use simpler queries to get a broader set of results (less than 5 words). Very targetted queries may not return any results.
get_story_info
Get detailed story info from Hacker News, including the comments
Prompts
Interactive templates invoked by user choice
No prompts
Resources
Contextual data attached and managed by the client