search_hn

Active

declared in 0.1.0

Full-text search Hacker News via Algolia. Pass query plus optional tags filter (story, comment, ask_hn, show_hn; default: story). Returns title, URL, score, author, comment count, and timestamp.

Parameters schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "examples": [
    {
      "query": "artificial intelligence"
    },
    {
      "tags": "story",
      "query": "startup funding",
      "per_page": 20
    }
  ],
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "tags": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Content type filter: story, comment, ask_hn, or show_hn (default: story)"
    },
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Search query string"
    },
    "per_page": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Number of results to return (default: 10)"
    }
  }
}

What this tool wraps· 1 endpoint

min confidence0.70 0.50

Data resourceHacker News API
Y Combinator · media
name mention0.80

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hackernews

https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-hackernews

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