aeon-hacker-news-digest SKILL.md skillA
aeon-hacker-news-digest from bankrbot/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add bankrbot/skills/aeon-hacker-news-digest@git:20260512.a4ba040Pins git:20260512.a4ba040 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- bankrbot/skills
- Path
aeon-hacker-news-digest/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260512.a4ba040, committed May 12, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 12, 2026
- Size
- 2,254 bytes
- Repository stars
- 1,208
- License
- none declared
Top Hacker News stories filtered by interest tags, with comment-mined insights (top, dissenting, expert/builder) and themed clustering. Comments often beat the post — this skill extracts the highest-signal threads rather than just listing front-page links. Triggers: "top HN today", "hacker news digest", "what's on hn", "best comments today".
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# aeon-hacker-news-digest
Daily HN digest that goes beyond the front page. Stories filtered by configurable interests, clustered by theme, with the highest-signal comments mined from each thread.
## Inputs
| Param | Description |
|---|---|
| `interests` | Comma-separated tags: `ai`, `crypto`, `infra`, `programming`, `startups`, `science`. Defaults to all. |
| `hours` | Look-back window. Default 24. |
| `min_score` | Story score floor. Default 100. |
| `min_comments` | Comment thread depth floor. Default 50. |
## HN API
```bash
# Stories created in last 24h, sorted by points
curl -s "https://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?tags=story&hitsPerPage=50&numericFilters=created_at_i>${unix_24h_ago}"
# Story + comment subtree
curl -s "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/item/${id}.json"
```
## Comment mining
Per surfaced story, extract three comments:
- Most-upvoted comment with substance (≥ 30 words, not a one-liner).
- Dissenting comment with traction (≥ 10 upvotes, contradicting the post or top comment).
- Builder/expert comment if one exists ("I work at X and..." with verifiable bio).
## Theme clustering
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add bankrbot/skills/aeon-hacker-news-digest@sha256:ed7dcdeebbafc87fThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260512.a4ba040, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on May 12, 2026.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260512.a4ba040 latest | 2026-05-12 | a4ba040 | 2,254 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260512.574b491 | 2026-05-12 | 574b491 | 3,914 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
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Source
bankrbot/skills · 1,208 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_u7fo7d7w7vcwwsf3 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=bankrbot/skills/aeon-hacker-news-digest GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/ed7dcdeebbafc87f16c108f19dc1618ab6b54bd0641570e619a40812d4d8fafb
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