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HackerNews Mention Intelligence MCP Server

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HackerNews Mention Intelligence is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 5 tools.

Track brand and product mentions on Hacker News: free snapshot, paid buzz intel via x402 USDC.

Uptime history 11 days of history · worst day 0%
11 days agonow
0.0%
Uptime 24h
0 of 92 checks
5
Tools
read from the server
116 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

HackerNews Mention Intelligence does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 78.1% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 8 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add hn-intel --transport http https://s-hn.pixharvest.com/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hn-intel": {
      "url": "https://s-hn.pixharvest.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.hn-intel]
url = "https://s-hn.pixharvest.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hn-intel": {
      "url": "https://s-hn.pixharvest.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hn-intel": {
      "url": "https://s-hn.pixharvest.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 5

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

mention
mention_batch_scan
PAID ($0.03 USDC per keyword via x402, max 50). Track a whole set of companies/terms on HN in one call: weekly/monthly mentions per keyword. Use for portfolio buzz tracking, market research across many startups, competitive scanning, trend discovery at scale.
mention_changes
PAID ($0.05 USDC on Base via x402). Mention change detection vs history: new HN discussions and flags hot new ones (high points/comments). Use for "did X get posted on HN", discussion monitoring, launch buzz alerts, tracking new threads about a product.
mention_intel_report
PAID ($0.50 USDC on Base via x402). Highest-value buzz-intelligence report: mention counts, rising/steady momentum, top stories and hot-discussion takeaways. Use for developer-marketing, PR monitoring, competitive mindshare analysis, launch and reputation tracking.
mention_landscape
PAID ($5 USDC on Base via x402, up to 10 keywords). Strategic mindshare landscape: ranks brands/projects by HN mentions and weekly momentum, flags who is rising. Use for competitive developer-mindshare mapping, market positioning, category buzz benchmarking.
mention_snapshot
FREE. Current HackerNews presence for a company, product or keyword: total mentions, mentions in last 7/30 days and most recent discussions. Use for "are people talking about X on HN", developer mindshare research, brand awareness, startup/competitor buzz.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://s-hn.pixharvest.com/mcp streamable-http answering 116 ms 8 min ago

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HackerNews Mention Intelligence — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can HackerNews Mention Intelligence do?
It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: mention_batch_scan, mention_changes, mention_intel_report, mention_landscape, mention_snapshot. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is HackerNews Mention Intelligence working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 0 of 92 checks got a reply (0.0%), average response time 116 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
The registry lists HackerNews Mention Intelligence as active — why does it not respond?
The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.
How do I connect HackerNews Mention Intelligence?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does HackerNews Mention Intelligence need an API key?
No. HackerNews Mention Intelligence completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 5 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.