hn-mcp

losfair/hn-mcp

3.2

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A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server providing access to Hacker News data via HTTP/SSE transport.

Tools

Functions exposed to the LLM to take actions

get_item

Retrieve any Hacker News item by ID

get_user

Get user profile information by username

get_top_stories

Fetch top stories with configurable limit

get_new_stories

Fetch newest stories with configurable limit

get_best_stories

Fetch best stories with configurable limit

get_ask_stories

Fetch Ask HN stories with configurable limit

get_show_stories

Fetch Show HN stories with configurable limit

get_job_stories

Fetch job postings with configurable limit

get_item_with_comments

Get an item with nested comments

get_max_item_id

Get the current maximum item ID from Hacker News

get_updates

Get recently changed items and user profiles

Prompts

Interactive templates invoked by user choice

No prompts

Resources

Contextual data attached and managed by the client

No resources