Hackernews mcp

Hackernews mcp MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides access to Hacker News stories, comments, and user data, with support for search and content retrieval.

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Characteristics

Attribute	Details
Docker Image	mcp/hackernews-mcp⁠
Author	AayushBahukhandi⁠
Repository	https://github.com/AayushBahukhandi/hackernews-mcp⁠
Dockerfile	https://github.com/AayushBahukhandi/hackernews-mcp/blob/main/Dockerfile⁠
Docker Image built by	Docker Inc.
Docker Scout Health Score
Verify Signature	COSIGN_REPOSITORY=mcp/signatures cosign verify mcp/hackernews-mcp --key https://raw.githubusercontent.com/docker/keyring/refs/heads/main/public/mcp/latest.pub
Licence

Available Tools (4)

Tools Details

Tool: get_stories

Get stories from Hacker News. The options are top, new, ask_hn, show_hn for types of stories. This doesn't include the comments. Use get_story_info to get the comments.

Tool: get_story_info

Get detailed story info from Hacker News, including the comments

Tool: get_user_info

Get user info from Hacker News, including the stories they've submitted

Tool: search_stories

Search stories from Hacker News. It is generally recommended to use simpler queries to get a broader set of results (less than 5 words). Very targeted queries may not return any results.

Use this MCP Server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-hackernews": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "mcp/hackernews-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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