Hacker News MCP Server

Example Use Cases

• 1

  Fetch the latest Hacker News stories from various sections like top, new, best, ask, show, and job.

• 2

  Retrieve comments from specific Hacker News stories with configurable depth.

• 3

  That require integration of Hacker News data into AI-driven conversations using MCP protocol.

Description

This MCP server acts as a bridge between AI assistants and the Hacker News API, providing tools to fetch the latest stories and read comments from Hacker News. It uses the fast-mcp Ruby gem to handle MCP protocol requests and returns data in a compliant format. The server is designed as a learning project to understand MCP server architecture and facilitate integration of Hacker News data into AI conversations.