ZBS Index What actually exists in applied AI, with the source next to it

mcp server

hn-mcp-server

Browse Hacker News feeds, threads, and user profiles with full-text search.

Description as published by the maintainer. Source

  • version 0.5.13
  • active
  • retrieval

active — Most recent push to the repository was 2026-07-28. Dashed tags are derived by ZBS Index from the published description, not stated by the maintainer.

What this server can do

4 functions, named and described by the server itself. Parameter names are shown because they say more about what a function does than its name usually does.

hn_get_stories(feed, count, offset)
Fetch stories from an HN feed (top, new, best, ask, show, jobs), with title, URL, score, author, and comment count for each story. Required: feed.
hn_get_thread(depth, itemId, maxComments)
Get an item and its comment tree as a threaded discussion, with child comments resolved recursively. Use depth 0 for an item-only lookup. Required: itemId.
hn_get_user(username, submissionCount, submissionOffset, includeSubmissions)
Get an HN user profile with karma, about, and optionally their most recent submissions resolved into full items. Required: username.
hn_search_content(page, sort, tags, view, count, query, author, dateRange, minPoints)
Search Hacker News stories and comments via Algolia. Filterable by content type, author, date range, and minimum points. Required: query.

Last successful function declaration observed on . Source: https://hn.caseyjhand.com/mcp. We list what the server declared; we do not call any of these functions.

Endpoint status observed on . Source: https://hn.caseyjhand.com/mcp.

Signals

These are separate measurements of different things. They are deliberately not combined into one score, because a popularity number that mixes website traffic with saves and stars cannot be checked or acted on.

Signal Value What it measures Window Observed Source
GitHub stars 4 Number of GitHub accounts that bookmarked this repository since it was created. It is a bookmark count, not installs, not active users and not quality. cumulative, all time GitHub
Last commit 2026-07-28 Date of the most recent push to any branch. This is the strongest cheap indicator of whether the project is still maintained. point in time GitHub
Open issues 0 Open issues plus open pull requests, as GitHub counts them together. A high number can mean an active project or an abandoned one. as of fetch GitHub
Latest published version 0.5.13 Latest version string the maintainer published to the registry. as of fetch Model Context Protocol
Registry record last updated 2026-07-28 When the registry record was last updated by its maintainer. point in time Model Context Protocol
License Apache-2.0 Licence GitHub detected in the repository. Detection can be wrong; the LICENSE file is authoritative. as of fetch GitHub
First listed in the MCP Registry 2026-07-28 Date this server was first published to the official MCP Registry. Not a usage or quality measure. point in time Model Context Protocol
repository status active The repository exists on GitHub and is not archived. This says nothing about how recently it was worked on. as of fetch GitHub
mcp tools declared 4 tools Number of functions the server itself declared when asked to list them. This is what the server offers an agent, not a measure of how well any of them work. as of probe hn.caseyjhand.com
mcp endpoint status ok The server listed 4 functions when asked. as of probe hn.caseyjhand.com

Where to get it

Related, by what their authors tagged them

  • Hacker News Trending — last commit 2026-06-11, shares hacker-news, hn
    HN front-page, Algolia full-text search, and Show HN launch tracker.
  • BuyWhere MCP — last commit 2026-07-30, shares hackernews
    Product search, price comparison, and affiliate-ready shopping across Singapore and US retailers.
  • io.github.abe238/hotin — last commit 2026-08-03, shares hacker-news
    What's hot in AI right now, ranked with receipts from GitHub, HN, npm and Hugging Face.
  • Social Trends Intelligence MCP — last commit 2026-07-16, shares hacker-news
    Trending topics, cross-platform sentiment, viral content, community pulse & brand mentions.
  • io.github.cyanheads/anime-mcp-server — last commit 2026-07-30, shares cyanheads
    Search anime/manga, franchise watch order, schedule, characters, rankings, studio filmography.
  • io.github.cyanheads/arxiv-mcp-server — last commit 2026-07-27, shares cyanheads
    Search arXiv, fetch paper metadata, and read full-text content.
  • io.github.cyanheads/astronomy-mcp-server — last commit 2026-07-31, shares cyanheads
    Offline observational astronomy: positions, rise/set, moon phases, eclipses, and seasons.
  • io.github.cyanheads/attack-surface-mcp-server — last commit 2026-07-30, shares cyanheads
    Passive external attack-surface mapping: CT subdomains, DNS, TLS, HTTP posture, RDAP/WHOIS, Shodan.
  • io.github.cyanheads/aviation-weather-mcp-server — last commit 2026-07-30, shares cyanheads
    Fetch METARs, TAFs, PIREPs, and SIGMETs/AIRMETs from the NWS Aviation Weather Center.
  • io.github.cyanheads/biorxiv-mcp-server — last commit 2026-07-11, shares cyanheads
    Search and retrieve bioRxiv and medRxiv preprints — by DOI, date interval, or keyword — via MCP.

These share tags the maintainers applied themselves, such as hacker-news, hn, hackernews, cyanheads. Common tags like "mcp" or "ai" are ignored for this: agreeing with six hundred other projects is not a similarity.

This is not a recommendation and not a test result. It is a map of what the authors said their work is about.

Also from cyanheads

How the author describes it

Topics the maintainer set on GitHub: cyanheads, hacker-news, hackernews, hn, mcp, mcp-server, model-context-protocol, typescript.

This record as data

Every field on this page, with its source and observation date, is in the catalog JSON. Fetch the whole kind at once instead of parsing this HTML.

GET /api/v1/entries/mcp_server.json

Sources

  1. cyanheads/hn-mcp-server on GitHub — GitHub, observed , trust tier 3.
  2. Tools declared by the MCP server at https://hn.caseyjhand.com/mcp — hn.caseyjhand.com, observed , trust tier 4.
  3. Official MCP Registry — Model Context Protocol, observed , trust tier 1.