HN Pulse delivers the top 3 trending topics + a one-line action tip to your inbox every morning.
The HackerNews front page moves fast — 30+ stories per day, hundreds of comments. The recent Show HN: Google Trends for HackerNews (668 points, 146 comments) proved that builders are desperate for signal, not noise. They want to know: what's heating up, and should I care?
Existing solutions like HackerNews Trends show you beautiful charts — but they don't tell you what to do. You still have to interpret the data, cross-reference with your own niche, and decide if a rising topic is worth your weekend. That's where HN Pulse changes the game: we turn raw trend data into a one-minute read with a concrete action tip. No dashboards, no graphs, just clarity.
Right now the window is open. The original signal got 668 upvotes in hours — that's a community screaming for a better way to filter the firehose. By the time the next big Show HN drops, you'll already know what the community is hungry for. This is the moment to stop watching trends and start using them.
Every night our cron job hits the HN Search API and analyzes comment velocity, front-page frequency, and cross-topic clustering. We look for signals that are rising — not just popular.
Our algorithm picks the top 3 trending topics, adds a short context line, and — most importantly — writes a one-sentence action tip: “Build a CLI tool around this API” or “Write a Show HN about your take.”
No login, no dashboard. Just a clean HTML email you can read in under a minute. If a topic is worth your time, you'll know. If not, you just saved 30 minutes of scrolling.
We filter out the noise and surface only the 3 topics with the strongest rising signal. No more doom-scrolling through 200 comments to find the gold. You get the pulse, not the firehose.
Every trend comes with a one-line “builder tip” — a concrete suggestion for what to build, write, or explore. We turn data into direction, so you spend less time analyzing and more time creating.
No account creation, no dashboard, no learning curve. Just enter your email and start receiving your daily brief. It's the lowest-friction way to stay ahead of the HackerNews curve.