The Hacker News MCP server is an implementation of the Model Context Protocol that connects your AI agent and assistants like Claude, Cursor, etc directly to Hacker News. It provides structured and secure access to stories, discussions, and public user profiles, so your agent can find top stories, browse the newest submissions, explore highly ranked posts, retrieve item details, and look up users on your behalf.
- Top story discovery: Have your agent find the top Hacker News stories, including popular job posts.
- Best story tracking: Let the agent retrieve the best stories ranked by the Hacker News community.
- New submission monitoring: Direct your agent to browse the newest stories and spot fresh discussions about technology, startups, and programming.
- Story and discussion retrieval: Instruct your agent to fetch the details of a specific story, comment, job post, poll, or other Hacker News item.
- Public user research: Have your agent look up a Hacker News user by username and retrieve their public profile information.