HackerNews CLI & MCP

A read-only client for the official HackerNews API (https://github.com/HackerNews/API). It ships two entry points over one shared async client, so both behave the same way:

• hn, a Typer CLI with Rich tables, for terminal use.
• hn-mcp, a FastMCP server exposing the same operations as MCP tools, for MCP clients like Claude Desktop.

The API needs no authentication and has no rate limit. Timestamps are Unix epoch seconds. The title, text, and about fields contain HTML.

Setup

From the project root (uses uv):