In 2011 I created a few Twitter bots that would find posts from Hacker News and post them to Twitter. The bots would only post links that had over 200, 250, or 500 points, so that you could follow the bot and only see the good (most upvoted) stuff on Hacker News.

I recreated the bots in Mastodon after the great Twitter exodus in 2022. After that Twitter ended their API access and the bots ceased working there. Recently a person contacted me and requested to bring the bots also to Bluesky, which I now managed to do.

Mastodon

Bluesky

There are multiple bots to let people balance the amount of links they see. Personally I like to 250 points level which posts around 10 links a day.

The 750 and 1000 point accounts didn't exist before, but I added those now. I'm not sure, but I feel there's been some inflation in Hacker News, and more posts go over 500 points. Some data scientist somewhere has probably crunched the numbers.

P.S. I'm a bit worried about the Bluesky accounts, as there doesn't seem to be a way to mark the profiles as being bots. Mastodon has a clear checkbox "this is an automated account" and I checked with Toot.community admins that it's OK to create these bots. We'll see how it goes with Bluesky.