DIY Hacker News email digest

This github action periodically polls hacker news for stories appearing on the front page, then sends you an email of the day's best stories.

How it works

• The action is used in a workflow configured to collect stories on a schedule (e.g every hour) which it puts in the story table in the database.
• On every run the current top stories are upserted, with their scores and comment counts continuously updated.
• Then after each run, if the current time is after the next_send time in the config table the top stories are queried and sent to the emails set in config and next_send is incremented.
• The metric for ranking the best stories is combined percentile rank of score and number of comments for stories collected since the last send.

You'll need

1. A fork of this repo or a github project configured to use this action.
2. A postgres database (e.g. a free neon instance)
3. A Mailgun account for sending email.

Setup

TODO