📊 Send 24-hour Hacker News trends to Telegram with OpenRouter AI translation
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Description
Stay ahead of the curve with this smart Hacker News monitor. Unlike simple RSS feeds, this workflow uses a custom “Gravity Score” algorithm to identify rising trends and filter out noise, pushing a clean, summarized digest to your Telegram.
✨ Key Features
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🧠 Smart Algorithms:
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Gravity Score: Calculates popularity based on points, comments, and time (velocity), ensuring you see trending stories, not just old ones.
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Noise Filtering: Automatically discards “infancy” posts (new posts with zero engagement) to keep your feed high-quality.
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🤖 Optional AI Translation: Includes an AI Agent (via OpenRouter/LLM) to translate titles and summaries into your local language (e.g., Chinese, Spanish, French).
> Don’t need translation? Simply delete the Translate node and connect the Filter node directly to the Combine message templates node.
- 📱 Beautiful Telegram Format: Delivers a clean HTML-formatted digest with clickable links, stats (Points/Comments), and story previews.
⚙️ How It Works
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Schedule: Runs every 4 hours (configurable) to fetch data from the past 24 hours via the Algolia API.
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Analyze: Calculates the velocity score for each post and filters out low-quality entries.
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Translate (Optional): Uses an LLM to translate the content. You can customize the target language in the AI Agent’s system prompt.
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Format & Send: Combines the data into a structured message and pushes it to your Telegram Chat/Channel.
📝 Setup Instructions
- Telegram Credentials:
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Create a bot via
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Add the Bot Token to the Telegram node credentials.
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Get Chat ID.
- AI Configuration (Optional):
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Configure your LLM credentials (e.g., OpenRouter, OpenAI).
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In the “Translate” (AI Agent) node, edit the System Prompt to change the target language (Default is set to translate to Chinese).
👀 Output Example
🚨 Hacker News 24H Trending Alert
📉 Top stories captured: 5
🔥 Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?
📈 16.39 | 💬 796 | ⭐️ 482
🕒 Posted 12.7 hours ago
> Countless voiceless people sit alone every day...
🔥 Show HN: Gambit, an open-source agent harness
📈 2.20 | 💬 11 | ⭐️ 58
🕒 Posted 5.3 hours ago
> Wanted to show our open source agent harness...🔗 Nodes Used
HTTP Request, Telegram, Schedule Trigger, Filter, AI Agent, OpenRouter Chat Model
📥 Import
Download workflow.json and import into n8n:
Workflow menu → Import from File