Learn from HN: Get Top Resource Recommendations

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

Learning something new? Endlessly searching to find the best resources? This workflow finds top community-recommended learning resources on any topic from Hacker News, delivered to your inbox.

How it works

User submits a topic they want to learn via a simple form.

The workflow searches for relevant "Ask HN" posts on Hacker News and extracts top-level comments.

An LLM analyzes the comments and identifies the best learning resources.

A personalized email is sent to the user with a Markdown formatted list of top recommendations, categorized by resource type (e.g., book, course, article) and difficulty level.

Set up steps

1. Add your Google Gemini API credentials. You'll need to create a project and enable the Generative Language API.

2. Add your SMTP credentials for sending emails.

3. Customize the Form and email subject (optional).

4. Activate the workflow.

Fork it, tweak it, have fun!

Tools used: Google Gemini, OpenAI

Download the workflow template (JSON)

Original tutorial

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