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Daily AI news digest from Hacker News with GPT-5 summaries and email delivery

Ready for 3.0

by Daniel Nkencho ✓ · 4,607 views · created 2025-10-08 · Social Media, AI Summarization

Ready for 3.0. This template uses no nodes that n8n 3.0 removes. No removed nodes, versions or helpers found. Static check, last run 2026-10-19.

What this workflow does

This AI workflow has 11 nodes and runs on a schedule (every day). Along the way it connects Hacker News and OpenAI Chat Model.

How it runs

Trigger: On a schedule (every day).

  1. Fetch HN AI Stories (Hacker News): work with all
  2. Filter: keeps only the items that match a condition
  3. Loop Over Items (Loop Over Items (Split in Batches)): loops over the items in batches
  4. Combine All Summaries (Aggregate): combines items into one
  5. Scrape Article URL (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API
  6. Send Email: sends an email over SMTP
  7. Convert to Markdown (Markdown): converts between Markdown and HTML
  8. GPT Summarize Article (Basic LLM Chain): sends a prompt to an LLM, with model: GPT 5 pro
  9. Format News Item (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 1 field: news

Services it uses

Hacker NewsOpenAI Chat Model

Before you upgrade to n8n 3.0

Nothing in this workflow is removed in n8n 3.0, so it should import and run after the upgrade.

Nodes used (11)

From the author

Daily AI News Digest from Hacker News with GPT Summaries and Email Delivery Automate your daily AI news briefing: fetch AI-tagged stories from Hacker News, filter for the last 24 hours, scrape and summarize with GPT, then deliver a clean HTML email digest—no…

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