Monitor Hacker News for AI-tagged stories, fetch the latest 24 hours, scrape content, summarize with GPT-5, and deliver a styled HTML email digest automatically.
The AI agent automatically gathers AI-tagged stories from Hacker News and filters to the past 24 hours. It scrapes each source URL to extract full-text content as clean input. It uses GPT-5 to create concise headings and two-sentence summaries with links, then compiles a styled HTML digest and delivers it by email on a daily schedule.
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Fetches up to 1000 AI-tagged Hacker News stories.
Filters to posts from the last 24 hours.
Scrapes content from each story’s source URL.
Summarizes content with GPT-5, creating headings and links.
Assembles a styled HTML digest.
Sends the digest via email using SMTP.
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The AI agent retrieves up to 1000 AI-tagged Hacker News items and filters to posts from the last 24 hours.
For each item, it fetches the source page, converts content to clean text, and uses GPT-5 to generate a heading and a two-sentence summary with links.
It builds a mobile-friendly HTML digest and sends it via SMTP to configured recipients on a daily schedule.
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Scenario: At 7:00 AM, the AI agent pulls the latest AI-tagged Hacker News stories from the last 24 hours (targeting a digest of 12–20 items). It scrapes each article, GPT-5 generates a heading and a two-sentence summary with links, and the digest is compiled into a clean HTML email and sent to 100 subscribers.
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Need concise, up-to-date AI developments to inform experiments and literature reviews.
Want rapid access to AI news to inform tooling choices and experiments.
Need market signals and competitor moves to guide roadmaps.
Seek timely AI trend insights to craft campaigns.
Require reliable digest content to publish without manual curation.
Want digestible AI updates for curriculum materials.
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Fetches AI-tagged stories and applies 24-hour filter.
Generates headings and two-sentence summaries with links for each article.
Assembles summaries into a mobile-friendly HTML digest with inline CSS.
Sends the final digest to recipients on a configured schedule.
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The AI agent pulls AI-tagged stories from Hacker News, filters them to posts from the last 24 hours, and uses the story links to fetch source content for summarization. If a source is unavailable or blocks access, it logs the failure and continues with other items. The processing is designed to maximize coverage of relevant developments while maintaining a reasonable digest length. You can adjust the keyword filter and timeframe to tailor the selection. The end result is a consistent, source-attributed digest that can be sent automatically on schedule.
The agent fetches up to 1,000 AI-tagged stories and then filters to the most relevant subset within the last 24 hours. Depending on the total count and your configured limits, the digest typically includes a curated selection (often 12–20 items). Items are processed sequentially to ensure stable GPT-5 generation and reliable links. The SMTP delivery is independent of the story count so the email remains consistent in size and format. You can adjust the target count in the workflow configuration.
Yes. You can tweak the GPT-5 prompt, set a preferred number of sentences per summary, and adjust how links are displayed. The agent supports consistent heading generation plus concise two-sentence summaries with source links. If you need longer explorations, you can increase the sentence count or switch to a multi-paragraph format. All changes apply to every item in the digest for uniform output.
If a source blocks scraping, the agent logs the failure and skips the content extraction for that item, continuing with others. Proxies or alternate fetch methods may be used as a fallback if configured. The summaries for blocked sources may rely on the page metadata or the headline as a minimal cue. You will still receive a consistent digest with the remaining accessible items.
Configure an SMTP credential and specify from/to email addresses in the delivery node. Set the schedule in the trigger (default daily) so the digest runs automatically. The HTML digest is generated with inline CSS for compatibility across email clients. You can test the connection and adjust the audience size without redeploying the agent.
The agent uses publicly available Hacker News stories and their linked content where accessible. It processes content to generate summaries and preserves source attribution in the digest. No user data beyond the email delivery list is collected by the agent itself. You should ensure recipient consent for email delivery and review any site-specific terms that apply to content usage.
Yes. The architecture supports swapping the data source with other RSS/JSON feeds or HTML sources that expose article metadata. The OpenAI GPT-5 summarization and the HTML email delivery flow remain the same, so you can expand coverage to other domains with minimal changes. You would adjust the data fetch step and, if needed, update any site-specific parsing logic. This enables multi-source digests while preserving formatting and delivery reliability.
Monitor Hacker News for AI-tagged stories, fetch the latest 24 hours, scrape content, summarize with GPT-5, and deliver a styled HTML email digest automatically.
