Daily Hacker News Retrospective with Thematic Analysis
Automatically retrieve and analyze Hacker News front-page headlines from the same day across multiple years, categorize them into themes using AI, and send a summary to Telegram.
This workflow runs daily to fetch Hacker News front-page headlines for the current date spanning back to 2007. It uses Google Gemini to categorize these headlines into themes and identify trends over the years. The result is a Markdown-formatted summary that is sent to a specified Telegram chat. This provides a unique historical perspective on how the tech landscape has evolved over time.
Platform
n8n
Category
Lifestyle
Price
Free
Creator
Isabella Costa
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How to import this workflow into n8n
1Purchase or download the workflow to get the n8n workflow JSON file.
2In your n8n instance, open Workflows and choose "Import from File" (or paste the JSON with Ctrl+V on the canvas).
3Open each node marked with a credential warning and connect your own accounts and API keys.
4Run the workflow once manually to verify the data flow, then toggle it to Active.