Goal

• Summarize a Hacker News discussion for a given topic
• Follow the bullet point formatting rules in .claude/skills/text.rules.md

Workflow

Read the Input

• Given a pointer to a discussion on HackerNews in the form of a URL
  • E.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743628

Summarize the Article

• Summarize the main article in 5 bullet points

  # The peril of laziness lost
  - ...
  - ...
  

Summarize the Comments

• Analyze the Hacker News comment section for the linked article

• From all comments, summarize the 5 most interesting ones based on the following criteria:

  • Thought-provoking or insightful
  • Presents a unique perspective or uncommon knowledge
  • Sparks discussion or debate
  • Technically informative or educational
  • Controversial but well-argued
  • Do not print the name of the commenter

• Avoid selecting comments that are:

  • Simple jokes or memes
  • Very short reactions
  • Repetitive or low-effort

Write the Output

• Do not output any comment on screen
• Output the result in a file hn.txt without bold or other markdown formatting
• Run the command:

  > lint_text.py -i hn.txt
  

• Run the command:

  > cat hn.txt
  

Verification

• Confirm hn.txt was created and contains no bold or markdown formatting
• Confirm lint_text.py -i hn.txt completed without errors