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Hacker News Trending MCP Server

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Hacker News Trending is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 5 tools. Last commit 11 Jun 2026.

HN front-page, Algolia full-text search, and Show HN launch tracker.

Uptime history 39 hours of history · worst hour 0%
39 hours agonow
6.6%
Uptime 24h
6 of 91 checks
5
Tools
read from the server
216 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 11 Jun 2026

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 9 min ago.

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

hn
hn_search
Full-text search across all HN stories + comments (via Algolia). Filter by `tags` ('story', 'comment', 'show_hn', 'ask_hn'), `min_points`, and `days_ago`.
item
hn_item
Fetch a single HN item by id (story or comment).
show
hn_show_recent
Recent Show HN launches with at least N points in the last K days. Useful for tracking new product launches in the indie/AI ecosystem.
top
hn_top
Current Hacker News front-page stories. `kind` can be 'top' (default), 'best', 'new', 'ask' (Ask HN), 'show' (Show HN), or 'job'. Returns up to 100 items.
user
hn_user
HN user profile: karma, account age, recent submissions.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://hn-trending-mcp.atlasword.workers.dev/mcp streamable-http answering 257 ms 9 min ago

Hacker News Trending — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Hacker News Trending do?
It exposes 5 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: hn_item, hn_search, hn_show_recent, hn_top, hn_user. 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 Hacker News Trending working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 6 of 91 checks got a reply (6.6%), average response time 216 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
The registry lists Hacker News Trending 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 Hacker News Trending?
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 Hacker News Trending need an API key?
No. Hacker News Trending 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.
How fast is Hacker News Trending?
It answers our handshake in 216 ms on average, which is faster than 59% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is Hacker News Trending open source?
Yes — it is published under the NOASSERTION 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.