hackernews-mcp

devrelopers/hackernews-mcp

★ 8 stars Rust 🤖 AI/LLM Updated today

A Rust MCP server exposing Hacker News to AI assistants over stdio. Read the front page and Ask/Show/job stories, walk full comment trees with depth control, fetch user profiles, and run full-text search. Backed by the official Firebase and Algolia APIs — no keys, no auth.

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Quick Install

Copy the config for your editor. Some servers may need additional setup — check the README.

Add to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hackernews-mcp": {
      "command": "cargo",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "--",
        "hackernews-mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

README Excerpt

A small, read-only [Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) server that gives Claude Desktop and Claude Code first-class access to Hacker News. It speaks MCP over **stdio** and talks to two public, no-auth APIs: - **Official HN (Firebase)** — `https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/` — feeds, items, and users.

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hackernews-mcp

Quick Install

README Excerpt

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