hacker-news-digest

name	hacker-news-digest
description	Scan Hacker News for trending topics relevant to ArtStroy's content pillars (QA automation, pentesting, programming). Extracts article-worthy signals and scores them for topic brief creation.

Hacker News Digest

Scan the Hacker News front page and "Ask HN / Show HN" sections for topics that could become ArtStroy articles.

What to Scan

• HN front page (top ~30 stories)
• "Ask HN" posts with ≥50 points
• "Show HN" posts with ≥30 points
• Comments on highly-voted programming/security posts (sometimes the best signal is a problem people describe in comments)

Use the Algolia HN API for structured access:

https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?tags=front_page&hitsPerPage=30
https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query=playwright+testing&tags=story&hitsPerPage=10

ArtStroy Content Pillars

Filter for relevance to:

Pillar	Categories
QA Automation	Playwright, Cypress, testing strategies, CI/CD quality gates, flaky tests, visual regression
Pentesting	OWASP findings, CVEs, security tooling, bug bounty write-ups, exploit techniques (educational)
Programming	TypeScript, Astro, React, Bun/Node, API design, developer tooling, performance patterns

Discard: finance, crypto, hardware, politics, non-technical content.

Scoring

For each candidate story, score on three dimensions (1–5 each):

Dimension	1	3	5
Relevance	Tangentially related	Directly on a pillar	Core to a content gap on artstroy.net
Timeliness	Old news (>30 days)	Active discussion now	Trending today, article within 48h = first-mover
Uniqueness	Already covered on artstroy.net	Related but different angle	Not covered anywhere on site

Threshold: score ≥10/15 to include in topic brief output.

Output

For each qualifying story, produce a candidate entry:

### {Story Title}
- **HN link**: {url}
- **Points / Comments**: {points} pts, {comments} comments
- **Score**: {relevance}/5 + {timeliness}/5 + {uniqueness}/5 = {total}/15
- **Pillar**: QA / Pentesting / Programming
- **Article angle**: {1–2 sentences on how artstroy.net would cover this differently/better}

Pass all candidates with score ≥10 to the topic-brief skill for formatting as a proper brief to EIC.