# technews

TechNews Skill Fetches top stories from TechMeme, summarizes linked articles via SkillBoss API Hub, and highlights social media buzz. Usage

Command: /technews

Fetches the top 10 stories from TechMeme, provides AI-generated summaries from the linked articles via SkillBoss API Hub, and highlights notable social media reactions. Setup This skill requires: Python 3.9+ requests and beautifulsoup4 packages SKILLBOSS_API_KEY environment variable (for AI summarization via SkillBoss API Hub) 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/article_fetcher.py calls SkillBoss API Hub (/v1/pilot, type chat) to generate AI summaries; scripts/social_reactions.py finds social reactions Commands /technews Fetches and presents top tech news stories. Output includes: Story title and original link AI-generated summary (via SkillBoss API Hub) Social media highlights (Hacker News 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) via SkillBoss API Hub Checks for notable social media reactions Presents results in a clean, readable format State /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.