Hn Mcp Server

io.github.weiPublished by GitHub account weiv1.1.0Updated Oct 24, 2026

Model Context Protocol server for HackerNews API access.

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Overview

AI-generated overview

Local MCP server that gives an assistant access to the Hacker News API, so it can pull stories and related Hacker News data while you work.

What you can do
  • Access the Hacker News API from the assistant session.
  • Retrieve Hacker News content such as stories and related items, based on the API's endpoints.
  • No tool list is published, so the exact operations are not documented here.
When to use it
Worth adding when you want an assistant to look up Hacker News content during a conversation, for example to follow discussions or pull story data, without leaving the chat.
Requirements
Runs as a local process over stdio, installed from the npm package hn-mcp-server, so Node.js and npm are needed on the machine. No authentication, environment variables or headers are declared. Desktop client only; not available as a web-executable server.
Before you install
The published listing names no tools, so review the package before installing to see exactly what it can call. It talks to the public Hacker News API over the network, so requests leave your machine. No credentials are requested.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open Hn Mcp Server in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Desktop only via STDIO. STDIO servers start a local process, so they need the SourceWeft desktop host.

Tools

0
SourceWeft has not started this package in its sandbox yet, so its tools are not known.

Version history

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  1. v1.1.0LatestSep 16, 2026

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