Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf
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2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderIt's fun to wake up to find a project that I started on the top of HN! These days, I'm no longer very involved with the day-to-day of the project. Now that it's no longer a young project, here are some musings about Huginn and responses to people's comments in this thread, in no particular order. I've found that Huginn excels as a scheduled web scraper with lightweight filtering. That's what I use it for. On the other hand, while…
Well, it’s fun to see Huginn on HN! I’m the original author, but now it’s maintained by other excellent folks. I still use Huginn almost daily. It’s kind of my exocortex at this point, and the secret sauce for staying abreast of space industry news for Orbital Index (https://orbitalindex.com).
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 1579
- Total comments
- 192
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-12-12 | Huginn: Create agents that monitor and act on your behalfFirst breakout · Best thread | daolf | 1303 | 143 |
| 2022-01-23 | Huginn: System for building agents that perform automated tasks onlineLatest 20+ point return | vghaisas | 270 | 49 |
| 2024-03-24 | Create agents that monitor and act on your behalf | Alifatisk | 3 | 0 |
| 2025-05-11 | Huginn is a system for building agents that perform automated tasks online | Bluestein | 3 | 0 |