YipYap - AI Tech News MCP Server

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that fetches AI tech news from Reddit and Hacker News, with AI-powered article summarization.

Features

Four tools to help you stay up-to-date with AI news:

• summarise_weekly - Get top AI news from the past week with AI-generated TLDRs
• get_news - Search for news about specific AI topics with TLDRs
• get_trending - Find posts with high engagement (lots of discussion) with TLDRs
• get_drama - Discover controversial AI discussions with TLDRs

Each tool now includes AI-powered article summarization using Groq's Llama model, providing concise TLDRs for linked articles. Photo-only posts are automatically filtered out to focus on substantive content.

Installation

uv sync

Setup

1. Get a free Groq API key from https://console.groq.com

2. Create a .env file in the project root:

GROQ_API_KEY=your_groq_api_key_here

Usage

Testing with MCP Inspector

Test the server locally:

uv run mcp dev yipyap.py

Using with Claude Desktop

Add to your Claude Desktop config file:

macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

Windows: %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "yipyap": {
      "command": "python",
      "args": ["/path/to/yipyap/yipyap.py"]
    }
  }
}

Then restart Claude Desktop.

Tools

summarise_weekly()

Get the top 10 AI news posts from the past week across Reddit and Hacker News, sorted by score. Each post includes an AI-generated TLDR of the linked article.

Example:

summarise_weekly()

get_news(keyword, days=7)

Search for news about a specific AI topic with AI-generated TLDRs.

Parameters:

• keyword (required) - Search term (e.g., "GPT-5", "Claude", "Gemini")
• days (optional) - Number of days to look back (default: 7)

Example:

get_news(keyword="Claude", days=3)

get_trending(days=7)

Find posts with high engagement - lots of comments relative to upvotes. Includes AI-generated TLDRs.

Parameters:

• days (optional) - Number of days to look back (default: 7)

Example:

get_trending(days=7)

get_drama(days=7)

Discover controversial AI discussions on Reddit with AI-generated TLDRs.

Parameters:

• days (optional) - Number of days to look back (default: 7)

Example:

get_drama(days=3)

Sources

Reddit subreddits:

• MachineLearning
• artificial
• LocalLLaMA
• OpenAI
• ClaudeAI
• PromptEngineering
• learnmachinelearning
• neuralnetworks
• singularity
• programming
• LangChain
• StableDiffusion
• ArtificialInteligence
• Futurology
• ControlProblem

Hacker News:

• All AI-related stories via Algolia API

How It Works

1. Fetches posts from Reddit and Hacker News
2. Filters out photo-only posts
3. Fetches article content from URLs
4. Generates concise TLDRs using Groq's Llama 3.3 70B model
5. Returns formatted results with metadata and summaries

License

MIT