Hacker News
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The official Hacker News API: stories, comments, users and the live front-page rankings.
The crw MCP on your computer calls Hacker News directly. Calls cost no credits and the data does not pass through fastCRW. Install it once for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, Gemini CLI or OpenCode, with your fastCRW API key in place of the placeholder:
Capabilities (10)
hackernews/askstoriesFree, runs locallyReturns up to 200 item ids for current "Ask HN" discussion threads.
hackernews/beststoriesFree, runs locallyReturns up to 200 item ids for the highest-scoring recent stories, best first.
hackernews/itemFree, runs locallyReturns one Hacker News item — story, comment, job, poll or poll option — with its author, score, timestamp, text/url and the ids of its direct children in `kids`.
hackernews/jobstoriesFree, runs locallyReturns up to 200 item ids for the YC job postings currently on HN, newest first.
hackernews/maxitemFree, runs locallyReturns a single integer: the id most recently assigned on Hacker News.
hackernews/newstoriesFree, runs locallyReturns up to 500 item ids for the most recently submitted stories, newest first.
hackernews/showstoriesFree, runs locallyReturns up to 200 item ids for current "Show HN" posts, where people present something they built.
hackernews/topstoriesFree, runs locallyReturns up to 500 item ids for the current HN front-page ranking, best-ranked first.
hackernews/updatesFree, runs locallyReturns `{items, profiles}` — the item ids and usernames that changed most recently, for example from edits, new comments or score changes.
hackernews/userFree, runs locallyReturns a public HN user profile: karma, account creation time, the `about` bio and a `submitted` array of every item id they have posted.
Licence
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Source: Hacker News (Y Combinator)