What do I need to use HN Digest?

The mode; Appetite; Their filter.

Is HN Digest free to use?

Yes — run it free in the browser playground (no API key needed for the sponsored trial, or bring any provider key), or install it into Claude Code, Cursor, ChatGPT and more via npx pm-claude-skills. MIT-licensed and open source.

HN Digest

Q: How do I know the HN Digest output is good?

The skill verifies itself against its own quality checks: Fetches were batched sanely (top 10–15, not 500 ids); Every story line says what the thing is, not just its title; Discussion summaries name distinct positions with rough weights — no "mixed reactions"; Comment claims are attributed, not laundered into facts.

🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-18 🔷 SkillSpec L3 pm-live

Pull the current Hacker News front page, top comments, or a topic search with zero API keys — the official Firebase API and Algolia search via curl, digested instead of dumped. Use when asked what's on Hacker News, summarize HN today, what's the discussion on this story, or has HN covered some topic. Produces a ranked digest with scores and comment counts, the discussion's actual argument threads when asked, and the rerunnable commands.

▶ Run it free — no key needed 📝 Grade your existing draft View SKILL.md ↗

What to give it

▸The mode — front page now, a specific story's discussion, or a topic search

▸Appetite — top 5 headline-digest vs. deep read of one thread

▸Their filter — "anything about AI/security/startups" turns a digest into a targeted one; worth asking when the user has an obvious beat

✅ The bar it holds itself to

Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.

✓Fetches were batched sanely (top 10–15, not 500 ids)

✓Every story line says what the thing is, not just its title

✓Discussion summaries name distinct positions with rough weights — no "mixed reactions"

✓Comment claims are attributed, not laundered into facts

✓The digest is timestamped

⚠️ What it refuses to do

Do not dump 30 raw titles — the digest is the product

Do not loop the Firebase API when Algolia answers in one call

Do not present commenter claims as verified facts — attribute or drop

Do not answer "what's on HN" from memory — the front page turns over in hours

Do not editorialize the community's votes into objective importance — it's HN's taste, labeled as such

Install

npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude   # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcp

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🔌 Embed this skill

Drop this on your blog, docs, or site — it renders a "Run this skill" card:

<div data-pm-skill="hn-digest"></div>
<script src="https://mohitagw15856.github.io/pm-claude-skills/embed.js" async></script>

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