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Hacker News MCP

Reads Hacker News through its public API: top stories, item threads, and comment trees for a keyword. It is a cheap way to see what practitioners said about a tool, with the usual caveat…

Community stdio Verified 2026-11-10 researchcommunitynews

Use it for

Scanning discussion for a tool or topic before a launch post

Skip it if

Treating the front page as a market signal — it is one audience, not a market

What it is

Reads Hacker News through its public API: top stories, item threads, and comment trees for a keyword. It is a cheap way to see what practitioners said about a tool, with the usual caveat that a thread is an argument, not evidence.

Install

Terminal
npx -y hackernews-mcp

Client configuration

Paste this into your MCP client config, then restart the client.

MCP client config (JSON)
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "avbbc": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "hackernews-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

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