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Show HN: Distilhn.com – Front-Page Articles Summarized with Machine Learning

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Hey HN, I've built a little website to show news articles with a summary so that I don't have to RTFA if I just want a rough sense of what it covers :) I also share the summaries in an RSS feed for those who'd prefer to use their own reader. Let me know what you think!

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This was a fun little Christmas project. I did a quick write-up and video here: https://datasciencecastnet.home.blog/2022/12/30/distilhn-sum...

Any chance you'll open source all this? It could serve as a nice foundational layer / harness / framework for many purposes.

Edit: I found your explanatory post (https://datasciencecastnet.home.blog/2022/12/30/distilhn-sum...), not yet totally clear whether it includes enough information to be considered an end to end tutorial, but it's certainly a generous start. Thank you!

At this stage it's a one-day hack but here's the script: https://gist.github.com/johnowhitaker/741e9c9f16f7eb9c879bc0... View source to get the html/CSS/JS. Let me know if you make anything fun with it. PS: The video also has more explanation and a link to some demo code: https://youtu.be/TBqzMfWpQrs

Here is an open source HN summarizer that publishes the summaries to a Telegram channel: https://github.com/jiggy-ai/hn_summary

I have been thinking about adding an RSS feed option as well.

> I have been thinking about adding an RSS feed option as well.

Please do! That would be awesome.

Very cool how you pieced together these OS libraries and models! TIL about PythonAnywhere. Would it be possible to have your task/script update the index.html file? Since that’s the only thing that updates the feed, it might be a nice little simplification to render it without JS.

Since I already have the flask app set up I could inject the items into the page with a render template before serving it. Or write directly I guess since I already have the html snippet I want to insert! Good suggestion. The current architecture is partly just an artefact of the order I developed things :)

This is absolutely amazing - it might be able to displace the HN frontpage for me. Going to give it a go.

Would be cool if it also handled the Show HN frontpage list too, it's been more valuable to me as of late.

Thank you! I'll look at adding that tomorrow :)

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