Check today's Hacker News stories when a topic comes up
When a new technology question lands, ask Notis for today's Hacker News posts related to it and get a short signal check in Telegram.
Trigger
New Message Received
Triggered when your bot receives a new message in a private chat, group, or supergroup. To receive every message in a group, Privacy Mode must be disabled for the bot in BotFather.
Action
Get Hackernews Today Posts
Get today's posts from hacker news.
Why this helps
Time-sensitive conversations are easy to miss when tracking today's stories requires a separate search and reading session.
- Focus a daily story review on the topic you just mentioned.
- Get a timely snapshot without manually checking multiple feeds.
- Keep the research request in the same chat as the team's discussion.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Telegram and Hackernews to Notis once through the portal.
- 2Create the automation in the portal, or ask Notis to create it from a conversational request.
- 3In one prompt, tell Notis to use each relevant Telegram message as a topic for reviewing today's Hacker News posts and returning related items.
- 4Choose Telegram New Message Received as the trigger and choose a channel for run reports.
- 5Test with a timely topic you want to investigate today.
Questions about this workflow
How is this different from checking the frontpage?
This workflow uses today's posts as its source, so the prompt can request a broader daily set focused on the message topic.
Can I ask about a specific technology?
Yes. Send the topic in Telegram and describe in the prompt how narrowly Notis should interpret it.
When this happens · Trigger
Do this · Action
Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Telegram to Hackernews. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Telegram triggers
Hackernews actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Get Hackernews Frontpage
Get the frontpage posts of hacker news.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Get Hackernews Item
Get a specific item from hacker news using its id. limits response size to prevent context overflow.
New Message Received
Triggered when your bot receives a new message in a private chat, group, or supergroup. To receive every message in a group, Privacy Mode must be disabled for the bot in BotFather.
Get Latest Hackernews Posts
Get the latest posts from hacker news based on optional filters. results can be limited using the size parameter.
New Channel Post
Triggered when a new post is published to a channel where your bot is an administrator.
Get Hackernews Today Posts
Get today's posts from hacker news.
Callback Query Received
Triggered when a user taps an inline keyboard button attached to one of your bot's messages.
Get Hackernews User
Get a specific user from hacker news using their username.
Message Edited
Triggered when a message in a chat your bot can see is edited by its sender.
Search Hackernews Posts
Get relevant posts from hacker news based on a full-text query and optional filters. results can be limited using the size parameter.
New Chat Member
Triggered when a new member joins a group or supergroup the bot belongs to, including when the bot itself is added.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Telegram and Hackernews, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
When this happens · Trigger
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