Daily digest

How do I get today's top Hacker News stories without opening the site?

The front page is built to keep you reading, and you only wanted the list. Have a job fetch the front page each morning and save the headlines as a short file.

What you're seeing

You open the site for the top stories and surface forty minutes later. You wanted the headlines, not the afternoon.

Why it happens

How to fix it

  1. Have a job fetch the front page each morning and save the headlines as a short file.
  2. Schedule it for before you start work.
  3. Read the file, and open the site only for the stories worth your time.
The recipe that does it

Wake up to a Hacker News digest on your desktop

Every morning there's a markdown file on your desktop with today's top stories. You read it in two minutes.

Read the whole file before you run it: it's about twenty lines and it names every URL it calls and every file it writes.

See the recipe →

The short version

You get the headlines on your terms, as a file that's waiting when you sit down, and the site gets your attention only when a story has earned it.

Related questions

Does it need a model?

No. It fetches the page and saves the clean text.

Can I add a summary?

Yes. Add a model step and it will write a short brief from the headlines.

Can it watch for certain topics only?

Yes. Add a model step that keeps only the stories matching what you care about.

Vibe Engine (Vibra-Ingenn) runs these recipes on your own machine. Get the engine, browse the recipe library, or watch three recipes run.

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Written and maintained by Adeptus Camini, a one-person workshop. These are tools we build and run ourselves.

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