qbash Connectors / Hacker News

Hacker News MCP serverand Python AI tasks

qbash hosts a Hacker News MCP server you can use in Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, Grok Bot and Muse.

Developers use qbash Tasks to write cloud-hosted Python functions that pair Hacker News with models such as Claude and GPT.

Connect Hacker News free

MCP server

Build a Hacker News MCP server

Give ChatGPT, Claude and your other AI tools access to Hacker News through one server. You pick which Hacker News tools it shares, and you can add other connectors, memory folders and Tasks to the same server.

How to set it up

Connect Hacker News on the qbash Connectors page.
Create an MCP server and add the Hacker News tools you want to share.
Paste the server URL into your client. It connects with OAuth or an access token.

Connect a client Package an MCP server

Python AI task

Write a Hacker News task in Python

A qbash Task is a hosted Python function that calls Hacker News and AI models.

Summarise this week’s database discussions

Search stories from the last seven days, then ask an inline prompt to write a digest with discussion links.

main.py
since = int((datetime.now(timezone.utc) - timedelta(days=7)).timestamp())
report = qbash.integrations.hackernews.search_by_date(
    query="database",
    tags="story",
    numeric_filters=f"created_at_i>{since}",
    hits_per_page=20,
    page=0,
)
hits = report.get("result", {}).get("hits", [])
if hits:
    digest = qbash.ai.run_prompt(
        slug="hackernews-digest",
        variables={"stories": json.dumps(hits)},
    )
    qbash.output(digest)
else:
    qbash.output("No matching stories were returned for this week.")

Sample search_by_date response

{
  "status": "success",
  "result": {
    "hits": [
      {
        "objectID": "123",
        "title": "Testing a new database engine",
        "url": "https://example.com/database",
        "created_at_i": 1790672400
      }
    ],
    "page": 0,
    "nbPages": 1,
    "nbHits": 1
  }
}

What the Hacker News connector can do

Search Hacker News by relevance
Search Hacker News by newest items first
List current Hacker News front-page stories
Fetch a Hacker News item and its nested children
Fetch Hacker News user metadata

See every Hacker News method in the SDK Reference

qbash Tasks: AI applications in Python

A Task is a Python function that calls Hacker News, your other connectors and models such as Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok. qbash hosts and runs it.

Run Tasks on a schedule or from your team's tools

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Hacker News MCP questions

Can it post, comment or vote on Hacker News?

No. The HN Search API is read-only, and all five methods read from it. Posting and voting happen only on news.ycombinator.com with a logged-in account.