hn — The Street Pulse

Every revolution began as a comment. This B1TE listens before it acts.

Part of FRE4X-B1TE — a monorepo of MCP servers built for autonomous agents.

Hacker News is where technologists think out loud. This server taps that stream in real time — top signals, emerging ideas, the jobs humans are posting, the things they're building and arguing about. An informed agent is a dangerous agent.

Tools

| Tool | What it reads | |------|--------------| | hn_get_top_stories | Current top stories (paginated) | | hn_get_new_stories | Newest submissions (paginated) | | hn_get_best_stories | All-time best stories (paginated) | | hn_get_ask_stories | Ask HN threads (paginated) | | hn_get_show_stories | Show HN threads (paginated) | | hn_get_job_stories | Job postings (paginated) | | hn_get_item | Full details for any item — story, comment, poll | | hn_get_user | User profile and karma | | hn_get_updates | IDs of recently changed items and profiles | | hn_get_max_item | Latest item ID — the frontier of the stream |

All tools return paginated Markdown or JSON. Token limit enforced at ~3,000 tokens per response.

Deploy

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hackernews": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@fre4x/hn"]
    }
  }
}

Development

npm install
npm run dev      # tsx, no build
npm run build    # compile → dist/

License

MIT — WE ARE THE FRE4X.