technews

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: Python 3.9+ requests and beautifulsoup4 packages Optional: tiktoken for token-aware truncation Install dependencies: pip install requests beautifulsoup4 Architecture The skill works in three stages: Scrape TechMeme — scripts/techmeme_scraper.py fetches and parses top stories Fetch Articles — scripts/article_fetcher.py retrieves article content in parallel Summarize — scripts/summarizer.py generates summaries and finds social reactions Commands /technews Fetches and presents top tech news stories. Output includes: Story title and original link AI-generated summary Social media highlights (Twitter reactions) Relevance score based on topic preferences How It Works Scrapes TechMeme's homepage for top stories (by default, top 10) For each story, fetches the linked article Generates a concise summary (2-3 sentences) Checks for notable social media reactions Presents results in a clean, readable format State /memory/technews_history.json — cache of recently fetched stories to avoid repeats Examples /technews — Get the latest tech news summary Future Expansion This skill is designed to be extended to other sources: Hacker News ( /hn ) Reddit ( /reddit ) Other tech news aggregators The modular architecture allows adding new source handlers without changing core functionality.