A specialized automation for Openclaw Skills that aggregates, translates, and broadcasts the top Hacker News stories daily.
Install & Download
1. ClawHub CLI
The fastest way to install a skill directly from the registry.
npx clawhub@latest install hacker-news-summary
2. Manual Installation
Copy the skill folder to one of these locations
~/.openclaw/skills/ <project>/skills/ Priority: Workspace > Local > Bundled
3. Prompt Installation
Copy this prompt to OpenClaw to install it automatically.
Help me install hacker-news-summary using Clawhub. If Clawhub is not installed, install it first (npm i -g clawhub).
Prefer to download?
Get the raw skill files in a ZIP archive.
What is Hacker News Bilingual Daily Summary?
The Hacker News Bilingual Daily Summary is a powerful automation tool designed for the Openclaw Skills ecosystem. It streamlines technical intelligence gathering by automatically crawling the top 10 trending stories on Hacker News and generating bilingual English-Chinese titles using the Baidu Translation API.
This skill serves as a bridge between global tech trends and localized workflows, producing structured Markdown reports and providing optional real-time notifications to team communication platforms. By leveraging this Openclaw Skills component, developers and researchers can stay informed without the noise of manual browsing.
Hacker News Bilingual Daily Summary Use Cases
- Automating daily tech industry updates for development teams via Feishu or Lark.
- Building a local archive of top-voted global tech discussions for research.
- Overcoming language barriers in tech news through automated bilingual title generation.
- Integrating high-signal news feeds into personal knowledge management systems.
How Hacker News Bilingual Daily Summary Works
- The skill triggers a request to the official Hacker News API to retrieve the current top stories.
- It filters and selects the top 10 items based on real-time ranking.
- Each English title is processed through the Baidu Translation API to generate a corresponding Chinese translation.
- The results are formatted into a Markdown report and saved locally to ~/daily-news.md.
- If a webhook is provided, the skill sends a structured notification payload to the designated Feishu group chat.
Hacker News Bilingual Daily Summary Setup
To deploy this within your Openclaw Skills environment, follow these steps:
- Register at the Baidu Translation Open Platform to obtain your App ID and Secret.
- (Optional) Create a Custom Bot in your Feishu group and copy the Webhook URL.
- Configure your environment variables in your shell profile (~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc):
export BAIDU_APPID="your_baidu_appid"
export BAIDU_SECRET="your_baidu_secret"
export FEISHU_WEBHOOK="your_feishu_webhook_url"
Hacker News Bilingual Daily Summary Data Schema & Taxonomy
The skill manages data primarily through local file storage and API payloads. The primary output is a Markdown file with the following taxonomy:
| Data Point | Format | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Output Path | ~/daily-news.md |
The local destination for the compiled news report. |
| Title Schema | Bilingual String | Format: [English Title] / [Chinese Translation] |
| Metadata | URI/URL | Direct links to the original Hacker News source. |
| Dependencies | Binary | Requires bash, curl, jq, and md5sum for data processing. |
Hacker News Bilingual Daily Summary Advanced Features
- Support for Feishu/Lark custom bot webhooks for automated team broadcasts.
- Local persistence using Markdown for easy integration with Obsidian or Notion.
- Low-overhead execution utilizing lightweight system tools like curl and jq.
- Scalable translation logic that fits within the free tier of popular translation providers.
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