AI-Powered Hacker News Retrospective
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Uncover fascinating tech trends from Hacker News with this automated n8n workflow. It scrapes daily front-page headlines from years past, then uses Google Gemini AI to categorize them and generate a comprehensive historical summary, delivered daily to your preferred output.
About This Workflow
Dive deep into the evolution of technology as seen through Hacker News headlines with this powerful, automated n8n workflow. Every day at 9 PM, it meticulously scrapes the Hacker News front page for the current date, going back year by year to 2007. The collected historical data is then fed into Google Gemini 1.5 Pro, a cutting-edge AI model. This intelligent agent acts as a specialized news categorizer, identifying key headlines, grouping them by theme, and even analyzing the broader tech landscape shifts over the years. The final output is a beautifully formatted Markdown report, perfect for personal insights and trend spotting without manual effort.
Key Features
- Automated Daily Insights: Schedule to run automatically every day at your preferred time, delivering fresh historical summaries.
- Multi-Year Hacker News Lookback: Scrapes front-page headlines for the same day across multiple years, going back to 2007.
- AI-Powered Categorization: Leverages Google Gemini 1.5 Pro to intelligently categorize headlines into themes.
- Historical Trend Analysis: The AI analyzes headlines across years to identify and summarize evolving tech trends and shifts.
- Structured Markdown Output: Generates clear, hyperlinked Markdown reports, making the data easy to read and share.
- Built-in Rate Limiting: Includes batching for HTTP requests to Hacker News, ensuring polite and reliable scraping.
How To Use
- Set up Google Gemini Credentials: Ensure you have valid Google Gemini (or PaLM) API credentials configured within n8n and linked to the "Google Gemini Chat Model" node.
- Adjust Schedule (Optional): Modify the
ruleparameter of the "Schedule Trigger" node if you wish to change the workflow's daily execution time from the default 9 PM. - Customize Historical Depth (Advanced): In the "CreateYearsList" code node, you can modify the
year >= 2007condition to fetch headlines from a different starting year. - Fine-tune AI Instructions (Advanced): Edit the detailed
textparameter in the "Basic LLM Chain" node to refine the AI's persona, categorization criteria, or the desired output format. - Activate Workflow: Once configured, enable the workflow to begin automatically generating your daily historical Hacker News summaries.
Apps Used
Workflow JSON
{
"id": "8e509468-30e8-4953-a7d3-fb55fb2afff0",
"name": "AI-Powered Hacker News Retrospective",
"nodes": 16,
"category": "Personal",
"status": "active",
"version": "1.0.0"
}Note: This is a sample preview. The full workflow JSON contains node configurations, credentials placeholders, and execution logic.
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