TechMeme News
by @kesslerio
Fetches top stories from TechMeme, summarizes linked articles, and highlights social media reactions. Use when user wants tech news or says /technews.
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TechNews Skill
Fetches top stories from TechMeme, summarizes linked articles, and highlights social media buzz.
Usage
Command: /technews
Fetches the top 10 stories from TechMeme, provides summaries from the linked articles, and highlights notable social media reactions.
Setup
This skill requires:
requests and beautifulsoup4 packagestiktoken for token-aware truncationInstall dependencies:
pip install requests beautifulsoup4
Architecture
The skill works in three stages:
1. Scrape TechMeme β scripts/techmeme_scraper.py fetches and parses top stories
2. Fetch Articles β scripts/article_fetcher.py retrieves article content in parallel
3. Summarize β scripts/summarizer.py generates summaries and finds social reactions
Commands
/technews
Fetches and presents top tech news stories.
Output includes:
How It Works
1. Scrapes TechMeme's homepage for top stories (by default, top 10) 2. For each story, fetches the linked article 3. Generates a concise summary (2-3 sentences) 4. Checks for notable social media reactions 5. Presents results in a clean, readable format
State
/memory/technews_history.json Examples
/technews β Get the latest tech news summaryFuture Expansion
This skill is designed to be extended to other sources:
/hn)/reddit)The modular architecture allows adding new source handlers without changing core functionality.
π‘ Examples
/technews β Get the latest tech news summaryβοΈ Configuration
This skill requires:
requests and beautifulsoup4 packagestiktoken for token-aware truncationInstall dependencies:
pip install requests beautifulsoup4