# `io.github.cyanheads/hn-mcp-server` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.github.cyanheads/hn-mcp-server
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.github.cyanheads/hn-mcp-server
- Version: 0.5.22 (active)
- Publisher: io.github.cyanheads (GitHub account)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http), local (npm)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/cyanheads/hn-mcp-server
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:28:33.676Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Browse Hacker News feeds, threads, and user profiles with full-text search.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:16:01.028Z over streamable-http.

**4 tools: 4 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 0 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 4 | allow |

## Findings

No check matched anything in these tool definitions.


## Only reads (4)

Looks things up and changes nothing. Claude Code: allow.

### `hn_get_stories`

- The name "hn_get_stories" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Fetch stories from an HN feed (top, new, best, ask, show, jobs), with title, URL, score, author, and comment count for each story.
```

### `hn_get_thread`

- The name "hn_get_thread" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Get an item and its comment tree as a threaded discussion, with child comments resolved recursively. Use depth 0 for an item-only lookup. A long thread comes back in pages: pass the returned nextCursor as cursor to continue.
```

### `hn_get_user`

- The name "hn_get_user" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Get an HN user profile with karma, about, and optionally their most recent submissions resolved into full items.
```

### `hn_search_content`

- The name "hn_search_content" says "search": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Search Hacker News stories, comments, polls, and jobs via Algolia — by keyword, by filters alone, or both. Filterable by content type, author, parent story, date range, and minimum points.
```

## Claude Code permissions

For `.claude/settings.json`, assuming the server is installed as `hn`:

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__hn__hn_get_stories",
      "mcp__hn__hn_get_thread",
      "mcp__hn__hn_get_user",
      "mcp__hn__hn_search_content"
    ],
    "ask": [],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```