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Hacker News MCP — search and retrieve stories from Hacker News

الشيفرة المصدرية الموقع التوثيق

التثبيت

أضف هذا إلى إعدادات MCP في عميلك (Claude Desktop: claude_desktop_config.json، وCursor: ‏.cursor/mcp.json، ويستخدم VS Code وغيره الصيغة نفسها «mcpServers»).

Remote (streamable-http)
Claude Code 
claude mcp add --transport http hackernews 'https://gateway.pipeworx.io/hackernews/mcp'
إعداد JSON (Claude Desktop وCursor وVS Code) 
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "hackernews": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/hackernews/mcp"
        }
    }
}

التوثيق

مأخوذ من ملف README للمشروع على GitHub ويُحدَّث أسبوعيًا. تفتح الروابط على GitHub.

المحتويات
  1. mcp-hackernews
  2. Tools
  3. Quick Start
  4. No MCP client? Call it over HTTP
  5. Standalone (no gateway account)
  6. Using with ask_pipeworx
  7. More
  8. License

mcp-hackernews

Hacker News MCP — search and retrieve stories from Hacker News

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1881+ live data sources. This is an independent, unofficial integration — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or published by the upstream provider.

Tools

ToolDescription
search_hnFull-text search Hacker News via Algolia. Pass query plus optional tags filter (story, comment, ask_hn, show_hn; default: story). Returns title, URL, score, author, comment count, and timestamp.
get_top_storiesFetch the current live top-ranked Hacker News stories from the Firebase API. Returns up to count stories (default 10) with title, URL, score, author, comment count, and Unix timestamp.
get_storiesFetch Hacker News stories of a given TYPE: top (default), new (newest), best, ask (Ask HN), show (Show HN), or job (jobs/hiring). PREFER for "newest HN stories", "top Ask HN posts", "Show HN", "HN job postings / who is hiring". Returns title, URL (or self-text for Ask/Show), score, author, comment count, and timestamp.
get_itemFetch a Hacker News story or comment by ID (e.g., "42153809"). Returns full text, score, author, timestamp, and child replies.
get_hn_commentsFetch the discussion (top-level comments, actual text) on a Hacker News story by its item ID. PREFER OVER WEB SEARCH for "what are people saying about <HN story>", "HN discussion / developer sentiment on X". get_item returns only comment IDs; this resolves them to text. Find a story ID via get_top_stories or search_hn. Returns each top comment author, text, time, and reply count.

Quick Start

Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hackernews": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/hackernews/mcp"
    }
  }
}
What this endpoint actually serves

tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/hackernews/mcp returns the tools in the table above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — ask_pipeworx, discover_tools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and is the authoritative answer for a given day.

This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth, connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.

Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1881+ data sources. The only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx reaches all of them from either one.

No MCP client? Call it over HTTP

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_hn \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"query":"artificial intelligence"}'

No account needed for the first calls. Inspect any tool: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_hn. Find one: POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_packs with {"query":"..."}.

Standalone (no gateway account)

This package also runs as a local stdio MCP server — no Pipeworx account, no gateway round-trip:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hackernews": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-hackernews"]
    }
  }
}

Or run it directly to confirm it starts:

npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-hackernews

It speaks MCP over stdin/stdout and answers initialize/tools/list/tools/call for only this pack's tools — none of the shared meta-tools the gateway connection above adds. Same source, same tools, no ask_pipeworx routing.

Using with ask_pipeworx

Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English — this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway:

ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Hackernews data" })

The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.

More

License

MIT

الأسئلة الشائعة

ما هو Hackernews؟

Hacker News MCP — search and retrieve stories from Hacker News

كيف أثبّت Hackernews؟

يعمل كخادم بعيد. في Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http hackernews 'https://gateway.pipeworx.io/hackernews/mcp'. وفي العملاء الآخرين، الصق إعداد JSON من هذه الصفحة في إعدادات MCP الخاصة بهم.

هل يحتاج Hackernews إلى مفتاح API؟

لا يذكر إدراجه في السجل أي مفتاح أو سر إلزامي. قد تتطلب بعض الميزات حسابًا لدى الخدمة التي يتصل بها.

هل Hackernews مفتوح المصدر؟

نعم. شيفرته متاحة على GitHub بترخيص MIT.

من يصون Hackernews؟

ينشره pipeworx-io. يدرجه AI.tn لكنه لا يصونه ولا يوصي به.

من سجل MCP الرسمي. الإدراج ليس توصية: راجع شيفرة الخادم وصلاحياته قبل منحه الوصول إلى بياناتك.