Hacker News has 1,000 new stories a day. You miss the two about your work.

hndigest picks the stories on your topics and sends one short email a day. Free for 7 days, then 5 € a month.

How it works

You type up to 10 topics: a language, a tool, a company, your product name.
Once a day, or once a week, we read the new Hacker News stories and comments on your topics.
You get one email: up to 15 stories, two lines on each, and three lines on what happened. Our automatic system writes the lines; we say so in the email.

The email you get

Example, for the topics “sqlite” and “rust”:

HN today on sqlite, rust: 3 stories

Hello,

Your daily hndigest: 3 stories on Hacker News mentioned your topics (sqlite, rust) between 2026-09-13 07:00 and 2026-09-14 07:00 UTC.

What happened

Two SQLite stories reached the front page: a backup tool and a long thread on when a single file beats a database server. On the Rust side, a new embedded build got attention for its small binary size. Most comments compared both with what people already run in production.

The stories

Show HN: A backup tool for SQLite databases that streams to S3

212 points · 64 comments

A small Go program that copies every change of a SQLite file to S3 as it happens, so you can restore to any minute. Commenters asked how it compares with Litestream and whether it handles WAL mode.

Open on HN · Open the article

Ask HN: What do you use for small internal tools?

96 points · 143 comments · 12 HN comments on your topic

A thread on what people run for small internal apps: forms, admin pages, one-off scripts. Twelve comments mention SQLite as the database that removed their ops work.

Open on HN

A new build of Rust for embedded targets

58 points · 21 comments

A toolchain build that targets small microcontrollers without an operating system. Readers discussed binary size and how it compares with C for the same boards.

Open on HN · Open the article

The lines under each story are written by our automatic system from the title, the post and the HN comments. It does not read the linked article.

Price

5 € a month: the first 7 days are free, you add a card at the start and we charge nothing before day 8. Or 29 € once, paid today, for life.

Prices include VAT.

What it is not

It is not a feed reader and not the whole front page. You get only the stories that mention your topics. It is not an alert either: if you want an email within the hour when your name appears, that is hnwatch.

The two lines per story are written by our automatic system from the title, the post and the HN comments. It does not read the linked article. Check the link before you quote it.

It does not touch your HN account. No login, no posting, no voting. We only read the public HN API. We do not keep the names of HN users.

Who makes this

Team GiBSeS, a small engineering company working between Switzerland and Italy (GiBSeS OÜ, Tallinn). We build small tools that do one job. If a tool does not find enough paying users in 30 days, we close it and email you a link to download your data.