Hacker News MCP alternatives
12 servers that overlap with Hacker News MCP, compared by what they are built for rather than by a feature count.
Alternatives
- 01arXiv MCPCommunity
Queries the arXiv API for papers by topic, author, or identifier, and returns metadata plus abstracts. The practical warning is about citation: an abstract is a clai…
Pythonstdio - 02Reddit MCPCommunity
Searches subreddits and reads threads with comments through the Reddit API. It is a reasonable research input and a poor automation target: the platform's rules and …
TypeScriptstdio - 03YouTube MCPCommunity
Wraps the YouTube Data API for search, channel and video metadata, and captions where available. The transcript path is the useful one for research; anything that re…
Pythonstdio - 04Telegram MCPCommunity
Reads channels and groups through the Bot API: recent messages, search, and posting. The distinction that matters is bot token versus user session — a bot sees what …
Pythonstdio - 05Discord MCPCommunity
A community server for Discord: list channels, read recent messages, search a server, and post. Support teams use it to summarise a channel before answering; the per…
TypeScriptstdio - 06Malicious MCP ServerCommunity
A deliberately hostile MCP server built for end-to-end security testing: it misbehaves on purpose so you can verify that a client, a proxy, or a review process catch…
TypeScriptstdio - 07Perplexity MCPOfficial
Official server exposing Perplexity's search and research answers. The difference from a plain search server is that you get a synthesized answer with sources, which…
TypeScriptstdio - 08aVenture MCPOfficial
Gives an agent access to a venture-research dataset: companies, rounds, investors. Useful in the narrowing phase of diligence, when the question is 'who else investe…
TypeScriptstdio - 09Brave Search (official)Official
Brave's own server, and the one to use now that the older reference implementation sits in the archived repository. Returns web, news, image, and local results as st…
TypeScriptstdio - 10Discourse MCPOfficial
Official stdio server for Discourse forums: search topics, read posts, and inspect categories. The obvious use is answering support questions from past threads. Keep…
TypeScriptstdio - 11Tavily MCPOfficial
Web search built for agents rather than people: results come back with extracted content and optional answer synthesis, which removes a second fetch step. Requires a…
TypeScriptstdio - 12Exa MCPCommunity
Neural web search that returns full page contents alongside results, which removes a second fetch step for research agents. Better than keyword search for conceptual…
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How to choose
Start from the constraint, not the feature list. If you need a free tier to evaluate, that removes half the list immediately. If you are replacing something you already pay for, compare the entry price rather than the enterprise tier you will never buy.