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Hn MCP Server is answering right now. Last checked 12 min ago. 321 installs a week from npm. It exposes 4 tools. Last commit 14 Sep 2026.

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

Installs per day peak 209 · avg 43 · +9% w/w
a month agotoday
Uptime history 47 days of history · worst day 0%
47 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
4
Tools
read from the server
368 ms
Response time
average over 24h
321
Installs / week
npm and PyPI

What changed 7

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

13 Sep a tool changed version
4 Sep a tool changed version
25 Aug 4 tools changed the parameters they ask for hn_get_stories, hn_get_thread, hn_get_user and 1 more
25 Aug a tool changed version

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 12 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add hn-mcp-server --transport http https://hn.caseyjhand.com/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hn-mcp-server": {
      "url": "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
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hn-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://hn.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: HN_CONCURRENCY_LIMIT (Max concurrent HTTP requests for batch item fetches (integer, 1–50).), MCP_HTTP_HOST (The hostname for the HTTP server.), MCP_HTTP_PORT (The port to run the HTTP server on.), MCP_HTTP_ENDPOINT_PATH (The endpoint path for the MCP server.), MCP_AUTH_MODE (Authentication mode to use: 'none', 'jwt', or 'oauth'.), MCP_LOG_LEVEL (Sets the minimum log level for output (e.g., 'debug', 'info', 'warning').). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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 and comments via Algolia. Filterable by content type, author, 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.
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 408 ms 12 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 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 368 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 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 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 368 ms on average, which is faster than 42% of all working MCP servers we measure. 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 321 times in the last week. Week over week that is +9%. 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?
Yes — it is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, written in TypeScript, 4 stars on GitHub and 9 open issues. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.