TechMeme News

Fetches top stories from TechMeme, summarizes linked articles, and highlights social media reactions. Use when user wants tech news or says /technews.

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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

```
<workspace>/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.

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