Show HN: Readhn – AI-Native Hacker News MCP Server (Discover, Trust, Understand)
TL;DR
Readhn is an open-source MCP server for Hacker News with three pillars: Discovery, Trust, and transparent ranking.
Key Points
- It ships 6 tools: discover_stories, search, find_experts, expert_brief, story_brief, and thread_analysis.
- An EigenTrust-style model propagates credibility scores outward from manually seeded expert accounts.
- After pip install, a single readhn setup command auto-configures the server in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and others.
- Every ranking result exposes its signals explicitly rather than returning an opaque score.
Nauti's Take
This is an honestly built project – no inflated pitch, just a real frustration turned into a working tool. The EigenTrust idea is not new, but applying it to HN specifically makes sense: genuine influence there is nearly invisible to outsiders.
The auto-configuration via readhn setup is the most practical detail – MCP server setup remains one of the biggest friction points for non-developers. What is missing is transparency around seed expert selection; whoever controls that initial list ultimately controls the trust model.
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