Search and browse Hacker News — top stories, keyword search via Algolia, and individual item lookup
Stay on top of tech news. Search HN stories via the Algolia-powered search API, pull the current top stories from the Firebase API, or fetch any individual story or comment by ID.
search_hn — Full-text search across HN stories. Filter by date range and control result count.get_top_stories — Current top stories on Hacker News with title, URL, score, and comment count.get_item — Fetch a specific story or comment by its numeric HN ID.curl -s -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/hackernews/mcp \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_hn","arguments":{"query":"Rust programming language","sort":"points","limit":5}}}'
{
"mcpServers": {
"pipeworx-hackernews": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "mcp-remote@latest", "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/hackernews/mcp"]
}
}
}