HN is a distraction source so it's a good idea to block it in order to stay productive, but I don't want to lose any of the top news.
I wrote this small script that groups the stories that get into the top x rank. A second script uses mailgun to send me an email every 2 hours with the recap.
An example of the mail_sender script is available, I did not include the actual mail sender since you can use whathever you want, a direct mail from python, a third party like mailgun, pushbulet or whathever you like.
Edit :
Send via SMTP.
Added sendingto.txt (multiple emails).
Added Comments.
crontab setup :
0 9-18/3 * * * ~/hn/hn.py && ~/hn/mail.py >> logmail.txt