Add Hacker News context to a technical decision
Keep a decision and its supporting discussion together. Share the relevant item reference in Telegram and have Notis return the Hacker News context.
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 Item
Get a specific item from hacker news using its id. limits response size to prevent context overflow.
Why this helps
Technical decisions stall when someone must reopen a thread and reconstruct its relevance from scratch.
- Attach discussion context to a decision note.
- Reduce repeated thread reading when reviewing the choice later.
- Make it easier to identify whether deeper investigation is needed.
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 in conversational language.
- 3Prompt Notis to fetch a Hacker News item referenced in a Telegram message about a technical decision and summarize relevant discussion context.
- 4Select Telegram New Message Received as the trigger and choose a channel for reports.
- 5Test with a decision note containing a Hacker News item ID or link.
Questions about this workflow
Can the message include the decision and the link?
Yes. The prompt can instruct Notis to use the item reference in the message and relate its summary to the accompanying decision.
Will this make the decision for me?
No. It provides discussion context so you can evaluate the decision yourself.
When this happens · Trigger
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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.
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