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Get a readable Hacker News digest each morning

Pulls the trending Hacker News threads every morning, rewrites them as readable prose, and files the digest as a document.

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When

Every day at 07:00 AM UTC, get the top 10 Hacker News stories in one request to https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?tags=front_page&hitsPerPage=10, then fetch each thread in one request to https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/items/<id>, keeping its first 5 top-level comments.

Then

  1. Rewrite each thread as a short readable summary.
  2. Append the digest to the Google Docs document id you choose in setup, skipping the run if today's digest is already there.
  3. Email me the digest with Gmail.

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