Skip to content
Open app Talk to sales
Hacker News logo

Hacker News MCP server

A social news website

Hacker News is not a separate install. One Activepieces MCP server exposes it alongside 760+ other apps, behind a single URL.

Start building See the Hacker News integration
Tools
1
Works with
Any MCP client
License
MIT, open source
Updated
August 2026

About the Hacker News MCP server

Connect Hacker News once in Activepieces and every action it ships becomes a tool your assistant can call, behind the same server URL as the rest of your apps. Your agent reaches Hacker News and 760+ other apps over a single connection, on our cloud or a self-hosted install.

Tools

Hacker News tools your AI can run

Once connected, your assistant can call any of these Hacker News actions by asking in plain language.

  • Fetch Top Stories

    Fetch top stories from hackernews

    1 field

Give your assistant Hacker News

Connect Hacker News once and every tool above is callable from Claude, Cursor or any MCP client, behind the same server URL as 760+ other apps. Free to start.

Get your server URLTalk to sales

Hacker News MCP, answered.

No. That is the point of it. One Activepieces server exposes Hacker News alongside every other piece you connect, so your client keeps a single connection.

Yes. Activepieces is open source and free to start, and the MCP server is included on every plan, from the free cloud tier to any self-hosted deployment.

Connect Hacker News in Activepieces, enable the server under Settings → MCP Server, then paste your server URL into your client config. It authenticates over OAuth on first use.

It can call 1 tool, including Fetch Top Stories, and chain them with steps in other apps inside the same run.

Connections use OAuth2 with limited scopes and are stored under 256-bit encryption, with no API to read them back, so an agent gets scoped access rather than your keys.

Guides using Hacker News

Hacker News automation Read our quick guide on Hacker News automation. Discover how it works, explore common use cases, and learn how Activepieces can help.