HN Daily Brief
PassAudited by ClawScan on May 1, 2026.
Overview
The provided artifacts are coherent for a Hacker News daily brief skill, with disclosed public web fetching, optional scheduling, and optional local report saving.
Before installing, decide whether you want recurring daily runs and saved report files. Leave reminderTime off and/or set persist=false if you only want on-demand chat reports.
Findings (2)
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The skill will contact Hacker News and linked websites and create local draft/output files when used.
The script fetches HN data and linked article pages, then writes a structured materials JSON file. This is expected for a news-brief generator, but it means running the skill performs network requests and local file writes.
HN = "https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0" ... with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=20) as r ... materials_path.write_text(
Use it only if you are comfortable with outbound web requests; keep outputDir scoped to a workspace and set persist=false if you do not want saved files.
If enabled, the skill may run later without a new manual request and may start retry runs to complete the daily report.
The skill supports scheduled daily execution and retry sessions. The behavior is disclosed and tied to the daily-brief purpose, with idempotency checks to avoid duplicates.
`reminderTime`: cron time in user timezone, or `off` ... Run scheduled HN jobs in isolated cron sessions ... primary run + immediate retry + delayed retry
Confirm the reminder time before enabling it, set reminderTime to off if you do not want recurring runs, and review persisted reports if persist=true.