TechMeme News

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:

1. Scrape TechMeme — scripts/techmeme_scraper.py fetches and parses top stories

2. Fetch Articles — scripts/article_fetcher.py retrieves article content in parallel

3. 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

1. Scrapes TechMeme's homepage for top stories (by default, top 10)

2. For each story, fetches the linked article

3. Generates a concise summary (2-3 sentences)

4. Checks for notable social media reactions

5. 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.