Technews

Pulls the top stories from TechMeme, fetches the actual articles, and gives you AI summaries plus any notable social media reactions. It's a three-stage scraper that caches results locally so you don't see duplicates. The modular setup means you could swap in Hacker News or Reddit pretty easily if TechMeme isn't your thing. Honest take: this is solid if you want a quick tech news digest without opening ten browser tabs, though you're trusting the summarizer to catch what matters. Requires Python 3.9+ and the usual scraping dependencies.

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last updated: Aug 21, 2026

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Install

$ npx -y skills add kesslerio/technews-openclaw-skill --skill technews --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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TechNews Skill

Fetches top stories from TechMeme, summarizes linked articles, and highlights social media buzz.

Usage

Command: /technews

Fetches the top 10 stories from TechMeme, provides summaries from the linked articles, and highlights notable social media reactions.

Setup

This skill requires:

Python 3.9+
requests and beautifulsoup4 packages
Optional: tiktoken for token-aware truncation

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/summarizer.py generates summaries and finds social reactions