Plugs directly into Hacker News through both the Firebase API and Algolia's search endpoint. You get four tools: pull stories from any feed (top, new, best, ask, show, jobs) with pagination, fetch entire comment threads with configurable depth and breadth-first traversal, look up user profiles with their submission history, and run full-text searches across stories and comments with filters for date ranges, authors, and point thresholds. Built on the author's mcp-ts-core framework with concurrent batch fetching for item resolution. Runs locally via stdio or connects to a public hosted instance at hn.caseyjhand.com/mcp. No API keys needed since HN's APIs are public. Useful when you need to analyze discussions, track topics, or pull research material from HN without opening a browser.
claude mcp add --transport stdio cyanheads-hn-mcp-server uvx hn-mcp-server