HN Summarize

HN Summarize is a Data skill for Claude Code, published by ykdojo in claude-code-tips.

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Install HN Summarize

Copy HN Summarize into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/ykdojo/claude-code-tips/tree/main/skills/hn-summarize ~/.claude/skills/hn-summarize

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/ykdojo/claude-code-tips.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/hn-summarize/SKILL.md in ykdojo/claude-code-tips
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/hn-summarize
Collection: One of 9 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Data — 668 skills

What HN Summarize does

HN Summarize fetches and summarizes Hacker News top stories, articles, and their comment threads using the official Firebase and Algolia APIs. Use it when you need a briefing on front-page stories, a specific story plus its discussion, or the top N from hckrnews without scraping the JavaScript-rendered site.

HN Summarize is cataloged under Data on DirSkills. HN Summarize comes from a repository tagged agentic, agentic-ai, agentic-coding, agentic-workflow and ai.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

HN Summarize

hckrnews.com is a JavaScript-rendered front end - curling it returns an empty shell, so do not scrape it. Instead use the official Hacker News APIs (Firebase + Algolia), which give the same stories with points, comment counts, and full comment trees. These APIs return plain JSON, so plain curl works fine.

1. Current top stories (the "top 10")

topstories.json returns 500 story IDs in front-page rank order. Take the first N and look up each item.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about HN Summarize

What else does ykdojo publish alongside HN Summarize?
HN Summarize is one of 9 skills that DirSkills catalogs from ykdojo/claude-code-tips, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Actions Failure Analyzer, Half Clone and Handoff. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way HN Summarize does, and is maintained by ykdojo in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the ykdojo/claude-code-tips page.
How does HN Summarize compare to other Data skills?
HN Summarize ranks #131 by stars among the 668 Data skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark Methodology, Jupyter Notebook and Solana. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of HN Summarize against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.