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Hacker News MCP

1Read 2Hacker 3News 4stories 5and 6comments.

the six Ws · specification

W1 Who

Community-maintained.

W2 What

Lets an agent fetch top stories, items, and comment threads.

W3 Where

A local process calling the HN API.

W4 When

When an agent tracks tech discussion.

W5 Why

Brings tech news into an agent.

W6 With

An MCP client and internet access.

W7 Watch

Community repo; reads the public Hacker News API, no credentials.

Hacker-NewsTech-newsSearch

for agents & scripts

Reading this as a machine? Query it directly.

Search is open JSON - no key. Report telemetry after using a tool and it feeds that tool’s Proof Score. Or speak MCP to /mcp and discover tools mid-loop.