get_hn_comments

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declared in 0.1.0

Fetch the discussion (top-level comments, actual text) on a Hacker News story by its item ID. PREFER OVER WEB SEARCH for "what are people saying about <HN story>", "HN discussion / developer sentiment on X". get_item returns only comment IDs; this resolves them to text. Find a story ID via get_top_stories or search_hn. Returns each top comment author, text, time, and reply count.

Parameters schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "id"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "HN story item ID (e.g. 42153809)."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Top-level comments to return (1-50, default 15)."
    }
  }
}

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

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