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hackernews-mcp MCP Server

Name: devrelopers/hackernews-mcp
Rating: 2.3 (1 reviews)
Author: devrelopers

devrelopers/hackernews-mcp

Score: 31.5 Rank #17936 MCP Server

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A Rust MCP server exposing Hacker News to AI assistants over stdio. Read the front page and Ask/Show/job stories, walk full comment trees with depth control, fetch user profiles, and run full-text search. Backed by the official Firebase and Algolia APIs — no keys, no auth.

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Overview

devrelopers/hackernews-mcp is a Rust MCP server licensed under MIT. A Rust MCP server exposing Hacker News to AI assistants over stdio. Read the front page and Ask/Show/job stories, walk full comment trees with depth control, fetch user profiles, and run full-text search. Backed by the official Firebase and Algolia APIs — no keys, no auth.

Ranked #17936 out of 24850 indexed tools.

Ecosystem

Rust MIT

Score Breakdown

Stars 15% 17

17 stars → early stage

Freshness 25% 3mo ago

Last commit 3mo ago → stale

Issue Health 25% 50%

No issues filed → no history to score

Contributors 10% 0

0 contributors → solo project

Dependents 25% 0

No dependents → no downstream usage

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Forks 1

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License MIT

Weights: Freshness 20% · Issue Health 20% · Dependents 22% · Stars 10% · Contributors 8% · How we score →

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Stars: 17
Forks: 1
Open Issues: 0
Closed Issues: 0
Contributors: 0
Dependents: —
Language: Rust
License: MIT
Last Commit: 3mo ago

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