mcp-hackernews

Item: mcp-hackernews
Rating: 69
Author: M8ven

Enables searching, reading, and watching Hacker News topics, including item retrieval, feed listing, and persistent topic watches with watermarks.

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// key findings

✅

10 tools verified — handlers match their declared behaviour

7 read-only tools verified — handlers contain no write/delete/exec

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

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// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configHN_MCP_DB— /var/lib/mcp-hackernews/watches.db # watch store

configHOST

configPORT

configMCP_TRANSPORT

// full audit trail

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// improvement guidance — verified publishers only

We have 3 concrete improvements we can share with the publisher of this MCP. Each comes with specific guidance to raise the trust score.

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[![M8ven Score](https://m8ven.ai/badge/mcp/lemenkov-mcp-hackernews-1b29p1)](https://m8ven.ai/mcp/lemenkov-mcp-hackernews-1b29p1)

commit: e1247d66ad4c67492575f3b2746fc27c914e2bcb

code hash: dc37683d691ca241ebfa77cd40347171ea89c023f207a12a1ce038e9123bce07

verified: 6/27/2026, 8:53:00 AM

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