External endpointresponds
hn-mcp-server
MCP server for Hacker News — feeds, threads, users, and search via Firebase and Algolia APIs
Endpoint URL
https://hn.caseyjhand.com/mcpCurrent status
responds
Last checked
Aug 17, 2026, 05:02 AM UTC
Check
MCP initialize · 8s limit
Latency
322 ms
Response record
4 of 4 rounds
Transport
streamable-http
Source
mcp_registry
Registry name
io.github.cyanheads/hn-mcp-server
Current observation
This endpoint answered at its latest recorded check.
What this server reports about itself
Self-reported at initialize. Not verified by Licium.
- Server name
- hn-mcp-server
- Version
- 0.5.13
- Capability keys
- logging, resources, tools, prompts
- Tool names
- hn_get_stories, hn_get_thread, hn_get_user, hn_search_content
Instructions excerpt
Use the hn_* tools to access Hacker News via the Firebase API and Algolia search: ranked feeds, full-text search with type/author/date/score filters, user profiles, and items with their comment trees. Items are addressed by integer ID, reused across tools and item types (story, comment, job, poll, pollopt); passing a comment id to hn_get_thread drills into that subtree. Usernames are case-sensitive; HN sparsely populates fields, so treat absent values as unknown.
Reported Aug 17, 2026, 05:02 AM UTC.
Check history
Oldest to newest. Each row is one recorded check.
- respondsMCP initialize · 8s limit · HTTP 200 · 131ms
- respondsMCP initialize · 8s limit · HTTP 200 · 360ms
- respondsMCP initialize · 8s limit · HTTP 200 · 295ms
- respondsMCP initialize · 8s limit · HTTP 200 · 322ms