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Developer Builds Serverless AI News Bot Using Node.js, Gemini, and GitHub Actions

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A developer has created an open-source serverless bot called Chaos Routine Bot that automatically delivers AI-generated technology news briefings each morning. The pipeline scrapes from over a dozen sources — including Hacker News, TechCrunch, and Ars Technica — randomly selecting two per run, then filters articles using a tech-relevance keyword system before processing. Extracted article text is condensed via Mozilla Readability and Compromise NLP, with only the first three sentences passed to Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash model to generate a sarcastic editorial-style summary. If the Gemini API is unavailable, the bot gracefully falls back to offline NLP-generated summaries, ensuring uninterrupted output. The final briefing is distributed simultaneously to Telegram and Discord, while a JSON feed, RSS output, and a Vercel-hosted dashboard are also maintained.

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