What is text.summarize_hn_in_bullet_points?

A discussion-summary procedure for Hacker News, a website where people share technology articles and discuss them in comments. It summarizes the linked article and selected informative or unusual comments as bullet points.

Use it with a Hacker News discussion URL to create a five-point article summary and a five-point summary of notable comments in a text file.

It saves time when a discussion is long or repetitive and separates useful ideas from jokes, brief reactions, and duplicate comments.

text.summarize_hn_in_bullet_points — Skill by gpsaggese/helpers

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent

npx skills add gpsaggese/helpers --skill text.summarize_hn_in_bullet_points

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gpsaggese/helpers

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 430 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00013	$0.00430
Opus 5.5	$0.00005	$0.00172
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00003	$0.00086
Haiku 4.5	$0.00001	$0.00043

Measured yesterday against content hash 3ad022142850, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

text.summarize_hn_in_bullet_points scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.claude/skills/text.summarize_hn_in_bullet_points/SKILL.md · 57 lines

What it actually says

Goal

Summarize a Hacker News discussion for a given topic
Follow the bullet point formatting rules in .claude/skills/text.rules.md

Workflow

Read the Input

Given a HackerNews discussion URL, e.g., https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743628

Summarize the Article

Summarize the main article in 5 bullet points
```
# The peril of laziness lost
- ...
- ...
```

Summarize the Comments

Analyze the HN comment section for the linked article
Summarize the 5 most interesting comments, favoring those that are:
- Thought-provoking or insightful
- Unique perspective or uncommon knowledge
- Sparking discussion or debate
- Technically informative or educational
- Controversial but well-argued
Do not print the commenter's name
Skip simple jokes or memes, very short reactions, and repetitive or low-effort comments

Write the Output

Do not output any comment on screen
Output the result in hn.txt, without bold or other markdown formatting
Say in hn.txt how it was generated, with this first line, without backticks:
```
Generated by .claude/skills/text.summarize_hn_in_bullet_points/SKILL.md
```
Run:
```
> lint_text.py -i hn.txt
```
Run:
```
> cat hn.txt
```

Verification

Confirm hn.txt was created and contains no bold or markdown formatting
Confirm lint_text.py -i hn.txt completed without errors
The file hn.txt says that it was generated by .claude/skills/text.summarize_hn_in_bullet_points/SKILL.md

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

yesterday First seen · 57 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 3ad022142850

Subscribe to this mod's changes

text.summarize_hn_in_bullet_points is a skill published in the GitHub repository gpsaggese/helpers (158 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 430 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-11-06.

Research Writing and docs

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