Connect AI Agents to
Close CRM
Automate workflows and connect AI agents to Close CRM. Metorial is built for developers. Handling OAuth, compliance, observability, and more.
How to Retrieve Top Stories and Story Feeds
Overview
The Hacker News MCP Server provides multiple ways to retrieve stories from the platform, giving you access to curated feeds that reflect different aspects of community activity. Understanding these retrieval options helps you get exactly the information you need, whether you're tracking trending discussions, discovering fresh content, or analyzing what resonates with the community.
Available Story Feeds
Top Stories
Top stories represent the most popular submissions currently on Hacker News' front page. These stories have earned their position through community upvotes and engagement, making them ideal for understanding what's capturing attention right now. To retrieve top stories, simply ask your AI assistant for "top stories from Hacker News" or "what's trending on Hacker News." The server returns a structured list including titles, URLs, scores, authors, and submission times.
New Stories
The new stories feed provides access to the latest submissions as they arrive on the platform, before they've been voted up or down. This feed is perfect for discovering content early, monitoring specific topics as they emerge, or ensuring you don't miss relevant discussions. Request new stories by asking for "latest Hacker News submissions" or "new stories on Hacker News."
Best Stories
Best stories represent submissions that have demonstrated lasting value and sustained engagement. Unlike top stories which reflect current popularity, best stories are selected based on longer-term quality signals. Access this feed by requesting "best stories from Hacker News" when you want content that has proven its worth to the community.
Working with Story Data
When you retrieve stories through any feed, the server returns comprehensive information about each submission. You'll receive the story title, external URL (if applicable), the number of points it has earned, who submitted it, when it was posted, and its unique identifier. This structured data makes it easy to filter, analyze, or take further action like retrieving associated comments.
Practical Tips
Start with top stories to get a quick pulse on current community interests. Use new stories when monitoring specific topics or companies where you want immediate awareness. Turn to best stories when seeking high-quality content for research or content curation purposes. You can also request specific numbers of stories by specifying how many results you want, such as "show me the top 10 Hacker News stories."
Close CRM on Metorial
The Close CRM integration lets you manage leads, contacts, and opportunities directly from your workflow, allowing you to create, update, and search records without switching between tools.
Connect anything. Anywhere.
Ready to build with Metorial?
Let's take your AI-powered applications to the next level, together.
About Metorial
Metorial provides developers with instant access to 600+ MCP servers for building AI agents that can interact with real-world tools and services. Built on MCP, Metorial simplifies agent tool integration by offering pre-configured connections to popular platforms like Google Drive, Slack, GitHub, Notion, and hundreds of other APIs. Our platform supports all major AI agent frameworks—including LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, and LangGraph—enabling developers to add tool calling capabilities to their agents in just a few lines of code. By eliminating the need for custom integration code, Metorial helps AI developers move from prototype to production faster while maintaining security and reliability. Whether you're building autonomous research agents, customer service bots, or workflow automation tools, Metorial's MCP server library provides the integrations you need to connect your agents to the real world.