MCP Hn

🚀 Hacker News MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides tools to fetch information from Hacker News.

🚀 Quick Start

Claude Desktop:

Update the following configuration:

On MacOS: ~/Library/Application\ 支持/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

On Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

Use the following production environment configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-hn": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["mcp-hn"]
    }
  }
}

✨ Features

• get_stories: Fetch (top, new, ask_hn, show_hn) stories.
• get_story_info: Fetch comments related to a specific story.
• search_stories: Search for stories based on a query.
• get_user_info: Fetch user information.

💻 Usage Examples

Basic Usage

Use the following prompts:

User: Fetch today's top stories.
Output: Use the `get_stories` tool and return a story about AI.
User: Can you tell me the details of the story about future AI today?
Output: Use the `get_story_info` tool based on the previous result and return a summary of the story's comments.
User: What has the user 'pg' done?
Output: Use the `get_user_info` tool and return a summary of the user's activities.
User: What are Hacker News' views on careers in the AI field?
Output: Use the `search_stories` tool and return a summary of the comments.

Advanced Usage

A more detailed example used with the puppeteer MCP server:

User: What are today's top stories?
Output: Use the `get_stories` tool and return a story about AI.
User: Can you use the puppeteer tool to read the article about <AI> and at the same time use the hackernews tool to view the comments, and then give me a summary of the main content of the article's comments?
Output: Use the puppeteer tool to read the article about AI, then use the `get_story_info` hn tool to fetch the comments and return a summary of the comment content.