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Hn MCP Server is answering right now. Last checked 1 min ago. 644 installs a week from npm. It exposes 4 tools. Last commit 28 Oct 2026.

Browse Hacker News feeds, threads, and user profiles with full-text search.

Installs per day peak 429 · avg 56 · +77% w/w
a month agotoday
Uptime history 91 days of history · worst day 0%
91 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
4
Tools
read from the server
635 ms
Response time
average over 24h
644
Installs / week
npm and PyPI

What changed 23

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 25 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

28 Oct 2 tools changed the parameters they ask for hn_get_thread, hn_search_content
28 Oct a tool changed version
19 Oct 4 tools changed the parameters they ask for hn_get_stories, hn_get_thread, hn_get_user and 1 more
19 Oct a tool changed version
5 Oct a tool changed version
24 Sep 2 tool descriptions were rewritten hn_get_thread, hn_search_content
24 Sep 2 tools changed the parameters they ask for hn_get_thread, hn_search_content
24 Sep a tool changed version2 times that day
19 Sep a tool changed version
13 Sep a tool changed version
and 7 more, back to 25 August 2026

Nothing serious here today

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

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 1 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add hn-mcp-server --transport http https://hn.caseyjhand.com/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://hn.caseyjhand.com/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.hn-mcp-server]
url = "https://hn.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hn-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://hn.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "hn-mcp-server": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://hn.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

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

content
hn_search_content
Search Hacker News stories, comments, polls, and jobs via Algolia — by keyword, by filters alone, or both. Filterable by content type, author, parent story, date range, and minimum points.
stories
hn_get_stories
Fetch stories from an HN feed (top, new, best, ask, show, jobs), with title, URL, score, author, and comment count for each story.
thread
hn_get_thread
Get an item and its comment tree as a threaded discussion, with child comments resolved recursively. Use depth 0 for an item-only lookup. A long thread comes back in pages: pass the returned nextCursor as cursor to continue.
user
hn_get_user
Get an HN user profile with karma, about, and optionally their most recent submissions resolved into full items.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://hn.caseyjhand.com/mcp streamable-http answering 521 ms 1 min ago

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Hn MCP Server — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Hn MCP Server do?
It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: hn_get_stories, hn_get_thread, hn_get_user, hn_search_content. 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 Hn MCP Server working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 635 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Hn MCP Server?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Hn MCP Server need an API key?
No. Hn MCP Server completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Hn MCP Server?
It answers our handshake in 635 ms on average, which is faster than 17% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
How many people use Hn MCP Server?
The npm package @cyanheads/hn-mcp-server was installed 644 times in the last week. Week over week that is +77%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Hn MCP Server open source?
The code is open source: it is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, written in TypeScript, 6 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at hn.caseyjhand.com, which runs on its operator's own terms.