co.civai.nova/mcp-hacker_news

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Hacker News MCP by Nova (CIVAI)

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Browse Hacker News from chat: top stories, search, read comment threads, and post or upvote when yo…

Summary by lookupd

Browses Hacker News feeds, searches stories, reads comment threads, and can log in to post comments, submit stories, or upvote.

Install

Claude Code, remote (streamable-http)

claude mcp add --transport http hacker_news https://nova.civai.co/mcp/agents/mcp-hacker_news

Codex, remote (streamable-http)

codex mcp add hacker_news --url https://nova.civai.co/mcp/agents/mcp-hacker_news

Cursor, remote (streamable-http) → .cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hacker_news": {
      "url": "https://nova.civai.co/mcp/agents/mcp-hacker_news"
    }
  }
}

Other clients: docs. Or tell your agent: Set up lookupd for me: read https://lookupd.com/agent.md and follow it.

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top_stories Fetch the current Hacker News front page (top stories) via the official Firebase API. Use when the user asks for top, front, or trending stories.
new_stories Fetch newest Hacker News story submissions. Use when the user asks for new or latest posts.
best_stories Fetch best-ranked Hacker News stories. Use when the user asks for best posts or all-time greats on the best feed.
get_item Get one Hacker News item (story or comment thread) by numeric id, including top-level comments when available.
get_user Look up a Hacker News user profile (karma, about, created date) by username.
browse_feed Browse an HTML feed on news.ycombinator.com: news, newest, ask, show, jobs, newcomments, front, or best.
search_stories Search Hacker News stories via the public Algolia API (same backend as hn.algolia.com).
login Sign in to Hacker News with username and password. Stores session cookie in hn_session_cookie for upvote, comment, and submit.
session_status Check whether hn_session_cookie is present and still logged in on Hacker News.
upvote Upvote a story or comment by item id. Requires a valid hn_session_cookie from login.
post_comment Post a comment on a story or reply thread. parent_id is the story or comment id. Requires login session.
submit_story Submit a new story link or Ask HN text post. Requires login. Provide story_url for link posts or story_text for text posts.

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