HN Who is hiring MCP Server

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HN Who is hiring runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. Last commit 15 Oct 2026.

Search, read and compare Hacker News "Who is hiring?" job posts as typed data. Read-only.

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15 Oct 2026

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TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check HN Who is hiring every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add hn-hiring-mcp -- npx -y hn-hiring-mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hn-hiring-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "hn-hiring-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.hn-hiring-mcp]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "hn-hiring-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hn-hiring-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "hn-hiring-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hn-hiring-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "hn-hiring-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: HN_HIRING_MCP_CACHE_DIR (Directory for the response cache (default ~/.cache/hn-hiring-mcp; "off" disables the disk cache)). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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HN Who is hiring — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for HN Who is hiring?

HN Who is hiring runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package hn-hiring-mcp.

How do I connect HN Who is hiring?

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 runs locally, so the command pulls hn-hiring-mcp straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

Is HN Who is hiring open source?

Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.