Hacker News MCP

MCPOpen SourceMPL-2.036.5

by imprvhub • NLP & LLM

An MCP server that lets Claude Desktop browse Hacker News, fetch stories, view details and comments, and present cleaned, readable content.

Example Use Cases

1
Fetch and display the latest, top, or best Hacker News stories programmatically for summarization or surfacing current tech news.
2
Retrieve full story details and threaded comments to analyze discussion, sentiment, or extract key points from Hacker News posts.
3
Cleaned, readable Hacker News content (and optional translations) to present to end users or include in multilingual workflows.

Description

This Model Context Protocol (MCP) server integrates Hacker News with Claude Desktop, exposing tools to list latest, top, and best stories, fetch story details, and retrieve comments. It cleans and formats Hacker News content for easier reading and supports translating results into other languages. The server runs locally (Node.js) and can be auto-started by Claude Desktop for seamless use.

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Security

Scanned 3 month(s) ago

Risk Level

MINIMAL

Read-only data retrieval, no side effects

Trust Score

D44/100

4/17 checks passed

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Quick Stats

Service TypeMCP

Pricing ModelFree

Capabilities0 Tools / 0 Prompts / 0 Resources

Ownerimprvhub

CategoryNLP & LLM

DependenciesStandalone