Hacker News Metrics — Story Scores & Comment Counts

Overview

Hacker News Metrics — Story Scores & Comment Counts is an MCP server that retrieves numeric story scores, timestamps, and comment counts from Hacker News by story ID. It exposes these metrics as tools that AI assistants can invoke directly, making it easy to fetch real-time data about Hacker News discussions and engagement.

This is a hosted remote server running at https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=hermeskd/hacker-news-story-metrics. You authenticate using an API key and connect your MCP client directly to the endpoint—no local installation needed. The latest release is v1.0.2, maintained by Apify at https://apify.com/hermeskd/hacker-news-story-metrics.

Hacker News Metrics — Story Scores & Comment Counts belongs in the Development category on mcp.site and works with MCP clients including Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, Zed, and others. If you maintain this server, claim this listing to verify ownership and keep its details current.

Installation

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector
Name: Hacker News Metrics — Story Scores & Comment Counts
URL:  https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=hermeskd/hacker-news-story-metrics