How do I every day, find the Hacker News threads in your expertise areas and draft authoritative, non-promotional comments, held for manual approval before posting
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Daily Hacker News comment drafts. Every day, find the Hacker News threads in your expertise areas and draft authoritative, non-promotional comments, held for manual approval before posting.
- Cost
- Free
- on your own plan
- Runs
- daily
- on a schedule
- Built from
- 6 steps
- 3 verified skills
- Runs in
- Claude or Codex
- as you
the steps
6 steps · 3 from verified skills- Step 1tool
pull the top Hacker News threads from the last 24 hours in the founder's expertise areas (AI agents, developer tools, startups) with title, url, points, and comment count
Hacker News from your terminal — with a local SQLite store, snapshot history, and agent-native output no other HN tool has. Trigger phrases: `check hacker…
Hacker News — Printing Press CLI Prerequisites: Install the CLI This skill drives the hackernews-pp-cli binary. You must verify the CLI is installed before invoking any command from this skill. If it is missing, install it first: Install…
Full skill: pp-hackernews- No integration? paste the HN front page or thread links
- No integration? list the topics to track
- Step 2decision
rank the Hacker News threads by topical relevance to the founder's expertise and by the opening for a substantive, credible technical reply
Decision step - Step 3
draft a concise, non-promotional Hacker News comment for each high-value thread in the founder's technical voice, calibrated to the thread's depth
Write articles, guides, blog posts, tutorials, newsletter issues, and other long-form content in a distinctive voice derived from supplied examples or brand…
Article Writing Write long-form content that sounds like an actual person with a point of view, not an LLM smoothing itself into paste. When to Activate drafting blog posts, essays, launch posts, guides, tutorials, or newsletter issues…
Full skill: article-writing - Step 4
humanize each drafted comment so it reads like a real person and not AI: kill the repeated 'not X, it is Y' antithesis (one max), vary sentence length hard, at most one aphorism for the whole comment, add a concrete specific, cut signpost phrases like 'here is the thing'
Remove AI writing patterns from prose. Use when drafting, editing, or reviewing text to eliminate predictable AI tells.
Stop Slop Eliminate predictable AI writing patterns from prose. Core Rules Cut filler phrases. Remove throat-clearing openers, emphasis crutches, and all adverbs. See references/phrases.md. Break formulaic structures. Avoid binary…
Full skill: stop-slop - Step 5decision
human approval gate: the founder reviews and edits each draft before anything is posted (HN replies are always manual)
Decision step - Step 6decision
compile the approved comment drafts with their thread permalinks into a single ready-to-post digest
Decision step
common questions
How do I every day, find the Hacker News threads in your expertise areas and draft authoritative, non-promotional comments, held for manual approval before posting?
The Daily Hacker News comment drafts agent. a small batch of ready-to-post HN comment drafts on the most relevant threads, in the founder's voice
Is the Daily Hacker News comment drafts agent free?
Yes. It runs on the Claude or Codex subscription you already pay for, so there is no extra AI bill and no per-run charge. You can build and run unlimited agents on the free plan.
How often does the Daily Hacker News comment drafts agent run?
It is built to run daily, on a schedule you set when you build it. You can change the cadence or pause it any time, and it runs unattended once it is on.
What does the Daily Hacker News comment drafts agent need to run?
Install Implexa into your Claude or Codex, then connect scheduled runs so it can gather its own data and deliver hands-free. Implexa never touches your accounts or credentials.
Does the Daily Hacker News comment drafts agent use my data? Is it private?
It runs as you, on your own machine, on your real data. The model runs inside your own Claude or Codex, so Implexa never sees your data, accounts, or credentials. Your agent's memory is yours and travels with you across Claude, Codex, and whatever comes next.
How do I build the Daily Hacker News comment drafts agent?
Install Implexa into your Claude or Codex, then say "build the Daily Hacker News comment drafts agent" and approve the schedule. Implexa assembles the 6 steps (3 from verified skills) and it runs on its own. About 5 minutes to your first real run.
Can I change what the Daily Hacker News comment drafts agent does?
Yes. Tell it what to change in plain language and it revises its steps; the next scheduled run uses the change, with no re-scheduling. Every change is versioned, and a run can even propose its own improvements.
changelog
1 proposed improvement- v4Jun 4manual
added 1 step; rebound step 4 (decision -> skills.sh/stop-slop)
- v3Jun 3manual
rebound step 2 (gap -> decision), step 5 (gap -> decision)
- v2Jun 3manual
rebound step 2 (skills.sh/reddit-thread-analyzer -> gap)
- v1Jun 3generated
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Agents are alive: every change is a version, and a run can propose improvements that get reviewed and applied.
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