Hackernews
NPM · @PIPEWORX/MCP-HACKERNEWS · 2 COMPONENTS
Hacker News MCP — search and retrieve stories from Hacker News
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Last scanned (15 hours ago)
Scores higher than 84% of npm servers
Category News and Social
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 Security100
- 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
- No production dependencies, so there is no dependency health to assess. View diagnostics → Pass
Provenance & Transparency97
- Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL. View diagnostics → Pass
- Cryptographically verified build provenance (signed, bound to pipeworx-io/mcp-hackernews). View diagnostics → Pass
- Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).Pass
- Actively maintained (last published 3 days ago).Pass
- Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository. See how to fix → Fail
Schema Quality & AI Usability78
- AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).Pass
- Tool/resource definitions use about 569 tokens (~113/item across 5 items; 5 tools + 0 resources), lean.Pass
- Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples. See how to fix → Fail
Stability & Change Management27
- Stability observed for 8 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.Partial
Tool Coverage100
- 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).Pass
- 100% of tool parameters carry a description.Pass
Tool Safety100
- No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.Pass
- We read all 5 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.Pass
- An AI judge read all 6 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
Checks we ran (16)
- Malware scan
- Known CVEs
- Install scripts
- Dependency health
- Source repository
- Provenance
- License
- Maintenance
- Security disclosure
- Schema quality
- Stability
- Tool coverage
- Injection markers
- Destructive annotations
- Judged manipulation
- MCP protocol
Does not apply to this package (2)
- Endpoint SecurityScored on hosted endpoints only. A package has no live endpoint of its own for us to probe.
- Transport & ReachabilityScored on hosted endpoints only. A package has no live endpoint of its own for us to probe.
The score does not measure everything. What the score does not measure →
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.
- 5 Nov 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 20 to 23. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 6 days of observed history at the previous scan, 7 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 3 Nov 26 +27
- Malware scan: unverified → pass ▲ security
- Known CVEs: unverified → pass ▲ security
- Dependency health: unverified → pass ▲ functional
- 2 Nov 26 −26
- Malware scan: pass → unverified ▼ security
- Known CVEs: pass → unverified ▼ security
- Dependency health: pass → unverified ▼ functional
- Package version: 0.2.0 → 0.2.1 functional
- 1 Nov 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 7 to 10. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 2 days of observed history at the previous scan, 3 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 30 Oct 26 +1
No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 0 to 3. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 0 days of observed history at the previous scan, 1 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.
- 29 Oct 26 81
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 6 Nov 2026 · Analysed npm/@pipeworx/mcp-hackernews@0.2.1
Provenance Verified
A signed build attestation was found and verified, binding this exact artifact to the source repository it claims to come from.
| Result | Verified |
|---|---|
| Ecosystem | npm |
| Reason | Verified |
| Discovered via | Registry attestation endpoint |
| Source repo | pipeworx-io/mcp-hackernews |
| Certificate issuer | https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com |
| Certificate SAN | https://github.com/pipeworx-io/mcp-hackernews/.github/workflows/publish.yml@refs/heads/main |
| Rekor log index | 3637387554 |
| Predicate type | SLSA build provenance https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1 |
| Subject digest | sha512:e1dd2e6f37159f77d4913ce308ebe10733c56e0cf2d6dab39d48105efdf849a406986f858632628ddbbaa9416c84ec01e8cad9bbba62d4a3074304a2c |
Background: How many MCP packages publish verified provenance →
Dependencies 0 packages
| Packages resolved | 0 |
|---|---|
| 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_hn_comments ~137
Fetch the discussion (top-level comments, actual text) on a Hacker News story by its item ID. PREFER OVER WEB SEARCH for "what are people saying about <HN story>", "HN discussion / developer sentiment on X". get_item returns only comment IDs; this resolves them to text. Find a story ID via get_top_stories or search_hn. Returns each top comment author, text, time, and reply count.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | number | yes | HN story item ID (e.g. 42153809). |
| limit | number | – | Top-level comments to return (1-50, default 15). |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_item ~53
Fetch a Hacker News story or comment by ID (e.g., "42153809"). Returns full text, score, author, timestamp, and child replies.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| id | number | yes | The numeric Hacker News item ID |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_stories ~145
Fetch Hacker News stories of a given TYPE: top (default), new (newest), best, ask (Ask HN), show (Show HN), or job (jobs/hiring). PREFER for "newest HN stories", "top Ask HN posts", "Show HN", "HN job postings / who is hiring". Returns title, URL (or self-text for Ask/Show), score, author, comment count, and timestamp.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| count | number | – | Number of stories to return (default 10, max 100). |
| type | string | – | Story list: top (default), new, best, ask, show, job. |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
get_top_stories ~70
Fetch the current live top-ranked Hacker News stories from the Firebase API. Returns up to `count` stories (default 10) with title, URL, score, author, comment count, and Unix timestamp.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| count | number | – | Number of top stories to return (default: 10) |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
search_hn ~111
Full-text search Hacker News via Algolia. Pass query plus optional tags filter (story, comment, ask_hn, show_hn; default: story). Returns title, URL, score, author, comment count, and timestamp.
| Name | Type | Req | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| per_page | number | – | Number of results to return (default: 10) |
| query | string | yes | Search query string |
| tags | string | – | Content type filter: story, comment, ask_hn, or show_hn (default: story) |
No output schema declared.
No examples provided.
How do I install the Hackernews MCP server?
Hackernews runs locally as an npm package, launched with npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-hackernews. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.
npm · @pipeworx/mcp-hackernews
claude mcp add pipeworx-io-hackernews -- npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-hackernews
What is the Hackernews MCP server?
Hackernews is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.pipeworx-io/hackernews. Hacker News MCP, search and retrieve stories from Hacker News. This page covers its npm package (@pipeworx/mcp-hackernews).
Is the Hackernews MCP server safe to use?
Hackernews scores 85 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 6 November 2026. It declares no install or post-install scripts. Its build provenance is signed and verified. 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 Hackernews MCP server expose?
Hackernews exposes 5 tools: search_hn, get_top_stories, get_stories, get_item, get_hn_comments. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 516 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.
Is the Hackernews MCP server still maintained?
Hackernews is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 6 November 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 Hackernews MCP server under?
Hackernews declares the MIT licence, which is OSI-approved. That covers the source only, and says nothing about the cost of any service it calls.
What did VerifyMCP test on the Hackernews MCP server?
VerifyMCP ran 16 checks on Hackernews, covering Malware scan, Known CVEs, Install scripts, Dependency health and 12 more. Endpoint Security and Transport & Reachability do not apply to an npm package, so they were not tested. The score does not measure everything, and the scoring documentation lists what it leaves out.