Gives Claude direct access to HackerNews through the official Firebase API. You can pull stories, comments, user profiles, and live updates without wrestling with rate limits or parsing HTML. Reach for this when you want to analyze trends across the front page, track comment threads on specific posts, or build tooling that monitors HN activity. It's a straightforward wrapper around the HN API endpoints, so you get the same data you'd fetch manually but with native MCP integration. Useful for research, content aggregation, or just keeping tabs on tech discussions without opening a browser.
claude mcp add --transport stdio io.github.wei-hn-mcp-server -- npx -y hn-mcp-server