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Made an app that summarizes recent popular stories from Hacker News

hackerdigest.upstash.app

39 pointshezarfendd21 comments

Hey Hacker News community!

I'm excited to share a side project I've been working on: an app that automatically summarizes recent popular stories from Hacker News using the power of OpenAI and Upstash Redis/Qstash.

Are you ever too lazy to read through an entire story, but still want to grasp the main points? That's where my summarizer comes in. It extracts the heart of the story without losing context, providing you with quick insights into the latest and most discussed topics on Hacker News.

Key Features:

Utilizes OpenAI for intelligent and context-aware summarization. Scheduled updates every 6 hours to fetch the best articles. Uses Upstash Redis/Qstash for data storage and queue.

Repo: https://github.com/upstash/hackerdigest

Looking forward to your feedback and suggestions!

I'm usually most interested in the top 3 comments

If thats the case I believe I can extend the app to do that.

Looks solid, but you need to provide more stories and compress the data visually -- it is taking up a lot of space. Think how compressed the front page of HN is.

This is the AI summarizer I use for HN:

https://hackernews.betacat.io/

It's one of those "Install" pages that's a pain to put on desktop. Otherwise, looked good!

There's a lot of summary tools, I feel what is lacking is exegesis. Most texts are too shallow as they are, and condensing them down makes them lose even more nuance. Software that could draw out hidden themes and understated points in a body of work would be incredibly useful.

+1 that'd be awesome. As I don't have time to read a single article fully, but I definitely don't have time to 200 of them.

Also....excited to learn a new word, "exegesis"

I think that's what makes summaries so difficult for skimming news, like on HN.

For most professional use-cases, you kinda know what types of stuff you expect in a summary so you could possibly create templates. For example, internal calls are mostly around deliverables, due dates, blockers, etc. When casually reading, you don't know what you'll come across so getting a summary that really "hits" is difficult.

Could you give an example of content where such critical distilation would be useful to you?

For this kind of thing, you can use LDA to draw out topics, then use clever prompting using the results of that with RAG to create summaries.

This is nice. Would be even better if it summarizes the comments as well.

Particularly if it summarized the key points of arguments on both sides of any debates.

Found this that summarizes comments as well as the article: https://hackyournews.com/

You can add Show HN to the subject so that it would end up on Show HN page.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Hello, I also follow Hacker News in order not to stay away from the sector, but recently I couldn't read it as much as I used to because of my increasing workload and laziness. That's why I made a Telegram bot that analyzes the top topics in Hacker News with GPT-4 and summarizes them in Turkish. If you want to enter this channel called "Hacker News Türkçe Özet": https://t.me/hackernews_tr

For a "Summarizer", the UI could be improved. Let it be flowing in a scrollable way that it is a single column. The content (summarized) blocks also need to be more compact.

Look at https://www.newsminimalist.com/ for inspiration. Yours is this one with the summaries expanded.

Gotcha. I'll see what I can do.

I did not see the phrases "at war with its users" or "Rust brigade".

I miss that guy.

I wonder what happened to n-gate. http://n-gate.com

how does it work?

It's actually a opensource you check it yourself. TL;DR, we feed chatgpt with top 10 news each 6 hour.

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