Hacker News
Hacker News is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship, run by Y Combinator. This API allows you to fetch top stories, new stories, ask stories, show stories, and job postings from Hacker News.
Overview
Hacker News gives your bots 5 tools. No account or key needed: it works as soon as you add it.
Plans and limits
- FreeNot included
- MCP only ($9/mo)2,000 calls a month
- Pro20,000 calls a month
- Max20,000 calls a month
How calls are counted
Calls are shared by every catalog app in the workspace. Past the monthly number they keep working from AI credits at $0.90 per 1,000 calls; the count resets on the 1st (UTC) and a retried call counts once.
Hacker News questions
How do I connect Hacker News to Krypton?
Open Integrations in Krypton, find Hacker News and choose Sign in. Every bot in the workspace can then use it, and you choose which bots get which apps.
Which plan includes Hacker News?
MCP only with 2,000 calls a month, Pro and Max with 20,000. Calls are shared by every catalog app in the workspace. Past the monthly number they keep working from AI credits at $0.90 per 1,000 calls; the count resets on the 1st (UTC) and a retried call counts once.
Can I use Hacker News from Claude or Cursor?
Yes. Connect it in your workspace, then add https://mcp.krypton.bot as a streamable HTTP MCP server with your kmcp_ workspace key. Calls count toward the same monthly number.
Tools
5 tools your bot can call in Hacker News. It asks before anything hard to undo.
- User getFetch user information by user ID
- User received getFetch stories received (comments) by a user
- User stories getFetch stories submitted by a user
- Item getFetch a specific item (story or comment) by ID
- Top stories getFetch the top stories from HackerNews
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