Daily AI news digest from Hacker News with GPT-5 summaries and email delivery
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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).
- Fetch HN AI Stories (Hacker News): work with all
- Filter: keeps only the items that match a condition
- Loop Over Items (Loop Over Items (Split in Batches)): loops over the items in batches
- Combine All Summaries (Aggregate): combines items into one
- Scrape Article URL (HTTP Request): calls an HTTP API
- Send Email: sends an email over SMTP
- Convert to Markdown (Markdown): converts between Markdown and HTML
- GPT Summarize Article (Basic LLM Chain): sends a prompt to an LLM, with model: GPT 5 pro
- Format News Item (Edit Fields (Set)): sets 1 field: news
Services it uses
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)
- Hacker News
n8n-nodes-base.hackerNews - Filter
n8n-nodes-base.filter - Loop Over Items (Split in Batches)
n8n-nodes-base.splitInBatches - HTTP Request
n8n-nodes-base.httpRequest - Markdown
n8n-nodes-base.markdown - Basic LLM Chain
@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.chainLlm - Edit Fields (Set)
n8n-nodes-base.set - Aggregate
n8n-nodes-base.aggregate - Send Email
n8n-nodes-base.emailSend - Schedule Trigger
n8n-nodes-base.scheduleTrigger - OpenAI Chat Model
@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.lmChatOpenAi
From the author
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