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A homemade hourly news radar from HN, Techmeme and X

Finding Muse's feed light at about one item every two hours, he had Muse build a custom news tool that scans Hacker News, Techmeme and high-signal X accounts hourly, filters against his criteria and alerts him to anything urgent. He says it works really well so far.

SSimon Smith ·2026-10-20 ·x.com

Try it yourself

Copy this to Muse and replace the [brackets] with your own details:

Every hour, check [sites and accounts], filter by [topics I care about], send two-line summaries of what matters and alert me right away to anything urgent.

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One sentence took care of five forgotten vet bills

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A utility phone tree cleared in four minutes

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An NBA trainer runs his day: flights, schedule and 12 basketballs

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