15 tools that work with Hacker News: 13 MCP servers, 2 Agent Skills and 0 Claude Code plugins. 2 of the remote servers answered our live check, 0 worked without an API key, and 5 come from an official or verified publisher. Ranked by GitHub stars plus official, live and free-to-try signals.
Most common uses: Web search engines & search APIs (10), Scraping, crawling & page-to-text (2), Browser automation (click, fill, screenshot) (1), Files, spreadsheets, CSV & PDFs (1).
| Tool | Stars | Last update | License | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| hn-search Search and monitor Hacker News stories, comments, and users via the free Algolia API. Use when the user asks about HN discussions, wants to find posts SkillInstall · skills CLI | 180 | MIT | ||
| Hacker News Front Page (Live Tech Stories) — buy per-query in-session (hnfrontpage) Hacker News front page: top stories, points, links. Be born in one call — free testnet funds. MCP serverVerified domain · a2awire.comRemote● LiveAPI key needed | — | — | ||
| Hacker News MCP by Nova (CIVAI) Browse Hacker News from chat: top stories, search, read comment threads, and post or upvote when yo… MCP serverVerified domain · nova.civai.coRemote● LiveAPI key needed | — | — | ||
| browsing-hackernews Use when the user wants to interact with Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com) — read top stories from the frontpage, extract a post's data and comments, SkillInstall · skills CLI | 121 | MIT | ||
| Frontpeek: Hacker News Front Page + Mentions — stories, scores, links Hacker News front page and search: stories, points, comments, and which stories link to your domain. MCP serverVerified domain · cybermax.cybermax-tools.workers.devRemoteSign-in needed | — | — | ||
| Hacker News (Apify Actor) by Tuper Hacker News stories, search and Who is Hiring jobs via the official API. Runs on Apify. MCP serverVerified domain · tuper.appRemoteSign-in needed | — | — | ||
| Hacker News Scraper: Stories, Comments & Users Scrape Hacker News stories, comments and user profiles as clean JSON with points, author… MCP serverVerified domain · ranovam.comRemoteSign-in needed | — | — | ||
| io.github.cyanheads/hn-mcp-server Browse Hacker News feeds, threads, and user profiles with full-text search. MCP serverGitHub-verified authorLocal · npm | 7 | Apache-2.0 | ||
| io.github.digitalgremlin/hn-developer-sentiment-mcp Deterministic Hacker News developer sentiment, themes & feature requests via MCP. No API key. MCP serverGitHub-verified authorRemoteSign-in needed | 1 | AGPL-3.0 | ||
| Hacker News Mcp Dive into the latest and greatest from the tech world with our Hacker News MCP server. MCP serverGitHub-verified authorRemoteDown | 0 | — | ||
| Hacker News Metrics — Story Scores & Comment Counts Read numeric Hacker News story scores, timestamps and comment counts by ID MCP serverGitHub-verified authorRemoteSign-in needed | — | — | ||
| Hacker News Scraper: stories and comments by keyword Find Ask HN, Show HN and job threads, filter by score, and get votes and body text for every row. MCP serverGitHub-verified authorRemoteSign-in needed | — | — | ||
| HN Hiring Trends Skill demand trends, salaries and job search from Hacker News Who is hiring threads. No API keys. MCP serverGitHub-verified authorLocal · PyPI | 0 | MIT | ||
| HN Who is hiring Search, read and compare Hacker News "Who is hiring?" job posts as typed data. Read-only. MCP serverGitHub-verified authorLocal · npm | 0 | MIT | ||
| io.github.YinTokey/mcp_hackernews MCP server exposing a simple Hacker News search tool (top stories). MCP serverGitHub-verified authorLocal · PyPI | 0 | — |