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Learn Anything from HN: Top Resources from Hacker News

Team leads and training coordinators who want community recommendations for learning a new topic.

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What it does

An n8n workflow that searches Hacker News for Ask HN posts about a topic you enter in a form, then reads their top-level comments. A language model picks out the learning resources that the community recommends and groups them by type, such as book or course, and by difficulty. The list is emailed to you in Markdown.

Use cases

  1. 01Find recommended books on a new technology
  2. 02Compare courses on a topic before planning training
  3. 03Collect reading for a new team member's onboarding

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Send Email · HTTP Request · Hacker News · Basic LLM Chain · Google Gemini Chat Model

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What is Learn Anything from HN: Top Resources from Hacker News used for?

Team leads and training coordinators who want community recommendations for learning a new topic. An n8n workflow that searches Hacker News for Ask HN posts about a topic you enter in a form, then reads their top-level comments. A language model picks out the learning resources that the community recommends and groups them by type, such as book or course, and by difficulty. The list is emailed to you in Markdown.

How do I import Learn Anything from HN: Top Resources from Hacker News into n8n?

Copy the workflow JSON from this page and paste it onto the n8n canvas with Ctrl+V or Cmd+V. Then connect your credentials in each node.

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