Description

Provides four read-only tools for accessing Hacker News data: fetching stories from six feed types (top, new, best, ask, show, jobs) with pagination, retrieving threaded comment trees with depth and count controls, looking up user profiles with optional submission resolution, and full-text search via Algolia with filtering by type, author, date, and score. Includes a public hosted instance and supports both stdio and HTTP transports.

🔬 Playground

Try Hacker News by cyanheads live in the browser with security context.
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Installation 

git clone https://github.com/cyanheads/hn-mcp-server

Claude Desktop Configuration

Add this configuration to your Claude Desktop config file to enable this MCP server:

Config file location: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

Config file location: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

Config file location: ~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

claude_desktop_config.json 
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hacker-news-by-cyanheads": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": [
        "path/to/server.js"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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