HN Who is hiring
NPM · HN-HIRING-MCP
Search, read and compare Hacker News "Who is hiring?" job posts as typed data. Read-only.
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Last scanned (7 hours ago)
Scores higher than 38% of npm servers
Category Search and Retrieval
How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. How we score → Why this is hard to score →
Supply Chain Security98
- No malware found by supply-chain analysis.Pass
- No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.Pass
- No install/post-install scripts declared.Pass
- 31 of 92 dependencies flagged as unhealthy. View diagnostics → Partial
Provenance & Transparency45
- Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL. View diagnostics → Pass
- Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published. See how to fix → View diagnostics → Fail
- Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).Pass
- Actively maintained (last published 2 days ago).Pass
- Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository. See how to fix → Fail
Schema Quality & AI Usability67
- AI-judged instruction clarity (good).Pass
- Tool/resource definitions use about 437 tokens (~109/item across 4 items; 4 tools + 0 resources), lean.Pass
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management0
- Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).Unverified
Tool Coverage90
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 64% of tool parameters carry a description.Partial
- Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.Pass
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 4 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 5 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.Pass
Capabilities100
- Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.Pass
Unverified: 1 category
A category scored 0 because we could not verify it: a data source with nothing on this package, evidence we could not reach, or a check we could not run. We only credit what we can confirm.
Every change we have recorded for this component, newest first. Security-relevant changes are always shown. ▲ marks a change for the better, ▼ a change for the worse; unmarked changes are neutral.
- 15 Oct 26 68
First indexed and scored.
Diagnostic detail from the automated scan of this channel: what the scanner observed at each step, so you can see exactly where a check passed or failed. It is informational only and never changes the trust score.
Captured 18 Oct 2026 · Analysed npm/hn-hiring-mcp@0.1.0
Provenance No attestation
The registry publishes no build provenance for this version, so there is nothing to verify.
| Result | No attestation |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | npm |
Background: How many MCP packages publish verified provenance →
Dependencies 92 packages
| Packages resolved | 92 |
|---|---|
| Stale | 31 |
| Tree resolution | Complete |
Background: SBOMs and build attestations, explained →
The tools this component advertises to a client, with an estimated token cost for each. Expand a tool to see its parameters and schema. The per-tool counts are indicative and are not scored directly; the schema's total context footprint is one signal in Schema Quality & AI Usability. A tool's description is untrusted text the model reads on every call, which is what makes this list a security surface and not just an inventory: how tool poisoning works →
get_job Get job post ~44
Returns the full text and parsed fields of one job post by its HN id (from search_jobs).
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | integer | yes | HN comment id of the job post |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| company | string | yes | – |
| employment_types | array | yes | – |
| excerpt | string | yes | – |
| headline | string | yes | – |
| hn_url | string | yes | Link to the original post; apply via the instructions there |
| id | integer | yes | HN comment id; pass to get_job for the full post |
| links | array | yes | – |
| location | string|null | yes | – |
| month | string | yes | – |
| posted_at | string | yes | – |
| roles | array | yes | – |
| salary | string|null | yes | As written by the poster |
| technologies | array | yes | – |
| text | string | yes | Full post text; e-mail addresses are replaced with [email on HN] |
| thread_id | integer | yes | – |
| visa_sponsorship | boolean|null | yes | null when the post does not mention it |
| work_modes | array | yes | – |
No examples provided.
hiring_trends Hiring trends ~90
For each of the last N monthly threads, counts how many posts mention each technology and how many offer remote/hybrid/onsite. Good for questions like 'is demand for Rust growing?'. The first call for many months can take ~1 s per uncached month.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| months | integer | – | – |
| technologies | array | yes | e.g. ['Python', 'TypeScript', 'Rust'] |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| months | array | yes | – |
No examples provided.
list_hiring_threads List hiring threads ~36
Lists the most recent monthly "Ask HN: Who is hiring?" threads, newest first.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | – | – |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| threads | array | yes | – |
No examples provided.
search_jobs Search job posts ~204
Searches one month of "Who is hiring?" posts. All filters are optional and combined with AND. Returns compact summaries; call get_job for the full text of a post.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| has_salary | boolean | – | Only posts that state compensation |
| limit | integer | – | – |
| location | string | – | Substring of the location, e.g. 'Europe', 'London', 'US' |
| month | string | – | Thread month as YYYY-MM. Defaults to the latest thread. |
| offset | integer | – | – |
| query | string | – | Free-text terms, all must appear, e.g. 'machine learning Berlin' |
| sort | string | – | Default: relevance when query is set, otherwise newest |
| technologies | array | – | All must be mentioned, e.g. ['Python', 'PostgreSQL'] |
| visa_sponsorship | boolean | – | true: offers sponsorship/relocation; false: explicitly does not |
| work_mode | string | – | – |
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| jobs | array | yes | – |
| month | string | yes | – |
| next_offset | – | yes | – |
| offset | integer | yes | – |
| thread_id | integer | yes | – |
| total_matches | integer | yes | – |
No examples provided.
How do I install the HN Who is hiring MCP server?
HN Who is hiring runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y hn-hiring-mcp. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
npm · hn-hiring-mcp
claude mcp add crayz129-hn-hiring-mcp -- npx -y hn-hiring-mcp
What is the HN Who is hiring MCP server?
HN Who is hiring is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.Crayz129/hn-hiring-mcp. Search, read and compare Hacker News "Who is hiring?" job posts as typed data. Read-only. This page covers its npm package (hn-hiring-mcp).
Is the HN Who is hiring MCP server safe to use?
HN Who is hiring scores 68 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 18 October 2026. It declares no install or post-install scripts. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.
What tools does the HN Who is hiring MCP server expose?
HN Who is hiring exposes 4 tools: list_hiring_threads, search_jobs, get_job, hiring_trends. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 374 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Is the HN Who is hiring MCP server still maintained?
HN Who is hiring is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 18 October 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.
What licence is the HN Who is hiring MCP server under?
HN Who is hiring declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.