summarize-hacker-news

Installation
SKILL.md

Protocol

  1. Use this curl comand to fetch front page stories using the Hacker News Algolia API.
curl -L "https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?tags=front_page" | python3 -c "
import json, sys
data = json.load(sys.stdin)
for hit in data['hits']:
    print(f\"{hit.get('objectID')} | {hit.get('title')} | {hit.get('points')} pts | {hit.get('num_comments')} comments | {hit.get('url')}\")
"
  1. Filter out the top 5 articles that you think would be of interest to me.
  2. Use parallel calls to tool read_webpage to get the contents of each article.
  3. Summarize all the articles.

Output

Installs
2
GitHub Stars
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First Seen
Mar 9, 2026