io.github.mrfentmen/hackernews-mcp

hackernews-mcp

Is the io.github.mrfentmen/hackernews-mcp MCP server down? No. It answered initialize and tools/list in the probe of 2026-11-09.

Hacker News: front page, new and best feeds, item detail, user profiles, full-text search.

alive probed 2026-11-14 · unchanged since 2026-11-09

6tools

897tokens in Claude Opus 5.5

0.4 %of Claude's 200k window

0.4×the median server

295 msto initialize

40 msto list tools

Run it: npx -y @mrfentmen/hackernews-mcp@1.0.1 (stdio, probed in a container with the network off)
Host: npmjs.com
Reports itself as: hackernews-mcp 1.0.0
Capabilities: tools
Instructions: none
Of a 1M window: <0.1 % of a 1M context window
Count: 897 tokens in Claude Opus 5.5, exact, measured 2026-10-27. With the Claude Code prefix mcp__…__ on each tool name: 975. The o200k_base estimate is 484. Counted again when the tool definitions change. Method.
Repository: https://github.com/mrfentmen/awesome-servers
Registry: active, updated 2026-11-08 · registry entry

Most expensive tools

The Claude column scales the o200k estimate of each tool by this server's ratio of exact to estimate, 1.85×.

Tool	≈ Claude tokens	o200k estimate	Share of this server
search	248	134	28 %
user_profile	146	79	16 %
best_stories	132	71	15 %
top_stories	124	67	14 %
item_detail	124	67	14 %

Other registry entries on npmjs.com, the ones next to this name; all of them.

Servers that mention hackernews.

The result of the latest probe, the tool count and the token cost. The feed has an entry for every probe that changed them.

Stops answering, comes back, tool set or cost changes. One confirmation mail first, a stop link in every mail.