Hacker News Throwback Machine: Discover Today's Historical Headlines!

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Contributed by Sabrina Ramonov 🍄. From the community directory at agents.sabrina.dev, republished with permission and full credit.

This is a simple workflow that grabs HackerNews front-page headlines from today's date across every year since 2007 and uses a little AI magic (Google Gemini) to sort them into themes. It sends a neat Markdown summary on Telegram.

How it works:

- Runs daily, grabbing Hacker News front page for this day across every year since 2007.

- Pulls headlines and dates.

- Uses Google Gemini to sort headlines into topics and spot trends.

- Sends a Markdown summary to Telegram.

Set up steps:

1. Clone the workflow.

2. Add your Google Gemini API key.

3. Add your Telegram bot token and chat ID.

Fork it, tweak it, and have fun!

Tools used: Google Gemini, Telegram

Download the workflow template (JSON)

Original tutorial

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