MCP / Web research

Hacker News MCP

Hacker News is a tech-focused news aggregator by Y Combinator, featuring user-submitted stories and discussions on startups, programming, and emerging trends. Connect it to Claude, Codex, Cursor or any MCP client through one FlyMy.AI MCP.

Connect Hacker NewsWhat it can do
Ready to use: no key6 actionsWeb researchTop 20 on FlyMy.AI
Ask your agent
What is on the Hacker News front page right now? Group the stories by topic.

Paste it into an assistant connected to FlyMy.AI. The agent picks the actions.

What Hacker News MCP can do

6 actions in the FlyMy.AI catalog, the most used first. Your agent finds them through search_tools and calls the one the task needs.

ActionWhat it does
HACKERNEWS_SEARCH_POSTSGet relevant posts from hacker news based on a full-text query and optional filters.
HACKERNEWS_GET_FRONTPAGEGet the frontpage posts of hacker news.
HACKERNEWS_GET_ITEM_WITH_IDGet a specific item from hacker news using its id.
HACKERNEWS_GET_LATEST_POSTSGet the latest posts from hacker news based on optional filters.
HACKERNEWS_GET_TODAYS_POSTSGet today's posts from hacker news.
HACKERNEWS_GET_USERGet a specific user from hacker news using their username.

Ask your agent

Requests to paste as they are. Each one runs on the actions named under it.

“What is on the Hacker News front page right now? Group the stories by topic.”uses HACKERNEWS_GET_FRONTPAGE
“Find Hacker News posts about MCP servers and summarize what people say.”uses HACKERNEWS_SEARCH_POSTS
“Show today's Hacker News posts about AI agents.”uses HACKERNEWS_GET_TODAYS_POSTS

Connect Hacker News in a minute

One MCP for every integration. Add it once, then every MCP in the catalog is a request away.

  1. 01

    Add FlyMy.AI

    Add the FlyMy.AI MCP to your assistant with one of the commands below and sign in. No key to copy.

  2. 02

    Nothing to connect

    Hacker News runs on the FlyMy.AI platform key: no account and no key of yours. Calls are billed to your FlyMy.AI balance.

  3. 03

    Ask

    Paste a request from this page. Every run shows what it cost.

Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http flymyai https://mcp-agents.flymy.ai/mcp

Then run /mcp in Claude Code and sign in.

Codex
codex mcp add flymy --url https://mcp-agents.flymy.ai/mcp

Then run codex mcp login flymy to sign in.

claude.ai and Claude Desktop
https://mcp-agents.flymy.ai/mcp

Settings, Connectors, Add custom connector: paste this URL.

Pay per run

Calls run on FlyMy.AI's key and are billed per call to your FlyMy.AI balance at the published rate. No seats and no minimum.

See usage pricing →

Go to the source

Hacker News connection settings →Hacker News website →Every MCP in the catalog →Usage pricing →

From the FlyMy.AI platform catalog of 2026-10-28: name, description, actions and setup as the platform lists them. Examples are requests to paste, not recorded runs.