Daily AI News Digest from Hacker News to Telegram (n8n, OpenRouter)

Get a daily Russian AI news digest from Hacker News—automatically delivered to Telegram

This n8n workflow pulls the latest AI-related stories from Hacker News, scrapes each article into Markdown text, summarizes them in Russian with OpenRouter (using GPT-5 with GPT-4 fallback), and posts a clean Telegram digest every day.

What this workflow does

• Runs daily using an n8n Schedule Trigger.
• Queries the Hacker News Algolia API for recent AI-related stories, then filters to the last 24 hours.
• Limits the digest to three articles to keep updates short and actionable.
• If no valid articles are found, it sends a “no news today” message to your Telegram chat.
• For each story, it fetches the linked page HTML, preserves the original title and URL, and converts the content into Markdown while skipping blocked/failed scrapes.
• Aggregates successfully scraped articles into a JSON array and sends it to OpenRouter to produce Russian headings and two-sentence summaries with a structured JSON response.
• Formats the output as Telegram Markdown (bold headings + source links) and posts the digest to the configured chat.

Use cases

• SaaS operators who want a daily AI landscape briefing without manually browsing Hacker News.
• Automation engineers building a Hacker News → Telegram content pipeline with AI summarization.
• Teams that need Russian summaries for internal sharing and faster reading.

Technical details

• Integrations: Hacker News Algolia API, OpenRouter, Telegram.
• n8n nodes / logic: Schedule Trigger, if, set, code, limit, filter, and markdown.
• Model setup: configure OpenRouter credentials and select GPT-5 with an optional GPT-4 fallback for summarization.

Best for n8n users who want a reliable, scheduled AI news digest automation—from Hacker News to Telegram—with structured OpenRouter summaries.