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Comment by zidoo | Hacker News Reader

Amen for the first sentence. One more LLM wrapper today, and I would die.

It does feels like a good use of AI (ML, really) would be to write a "disaggregator" for HN that tags submissions by category and lets users browse the bits they care about. Wish I had time to do it....

And a TL;DR, both for the articles themselves as well as the discussions.

I don't think a TL;DR can replace most articles that appear on HN, but it can certainly tell me whether the article is interesting, much better than any headline ever could. Especially so if the TL;DR is written by a neutral AI with no interest in making me click anything, and hence no qualms about surfacing the most important information to the top.

I actually tried to do this, but it was with GPT-3.5, and I didn't exactly like how it worked. I should look at this again, I wouldn't be surprised if the code I used back then could just be ported over to 2.5 Flash and produce much better results.

Here it is ;)

https://histre.com/hn/

Oh that's great! I wish it kept the HN style, the contrast and density is too low for me

Thanks. I'll create a HN-like theme.

In the meantime, if you install the browser extension, you can get the tags directly in HN itself. Would that address the ui issue?

Source: https://gitlab.com/histre/hn-tags

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-tags/i...

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hacker-news-t...

Thanks for the reply! The extension seems great at first but it doesn't let me filter out tags and basically just redirects me to your domain, so it's not really how I expect an extension to behave.

I see, thanks for the feedback. I'll improve that.

That's awesome! I second the other comment re: density and contrast

Thanks, will do. Please see my cousin comment for a potential workaround.

The HN UI is good because in 20 seconds I can assess the full top page.

If you can figure out how to add the tags while keeping down the visual bloat I would consider a switch.

Thanks, I'll create an HN theme for that page. BTW here's more discussion about this, back when I did a "Show HN" : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35904988

It's either LLM or "<existing software> written in <languge of the week>"

I rewrote J in C, or D in F#, or Whogivesafuck in Rust and it's 8% better but don't ask me for my benchmark because it's secret sauce.

And I ported DOOM to it.

Well, it's actually just a hardcoded slideshow of E1M1 while something vaguely approximating the main riff of At Doom's Gate plays inconsistently in the background, but you'll have to watch all 15 excruciating minutes of this poorly-narrated Youtube video I'm linking to figure that out.

I ported DOOM to it. In 100 LOC. BTW it's just a a line shooting a ball of zero width, at another line. And there's some movement left and right. But not forward, nor backwards. So there's no real strafing. And the other line doesn't shoot a ball of zero width back.

But it's the spirit of DOOM!!!

I started reading hackernews from very old posts to new ones, so i'm still rewriting stuff to ruby, because that will definitely be the universal programming language for the future!

Do you know why people started doing rewrites in other languages?

It's usually to help teach them the other language.

The rewrite part makes it easier for observers to learn and compare/contrast techniques in different environments for themselves.

Why this would ever be criticised, I can't imagine.

Because the language of the week changes often, and learning can be done by solving the problems of today instead of rewriting software into a version that will never be used. I mean... who still uses all the rewrites to ruby?

Even emacs was rewritten to rust ( https://github.com/remacs/remacs ), many hours were spent, and the last actual code commit was 5 years ago.... why not spend that time by making the "normal" emacs better? Or make something new in rust?

I'll say it again for the people struggling to hear in the back: it's for the experience.

"Prompt Kiddie" should be the new "Script Kiddie"

Yeah, this has been LLM News for a while...

50% people shilling LLM products, 50% people complaining about LLMs (or indirectly by complaining about crawlers)

However, this place used to be JS framework news not too long ago

and "Crypto News" for a long time too

And "Why I Left Google" News before that.

There's more finance and VC here than anyone wants to acknowledge. But it's not unexpected given that Y Combinator is a VC firm.

However these folks aren't known for their technical expertise so there's a lot of unnecessary noise feeding into the AI hype cycle of late.

Almost all YC companies this batch are LLM wrappers

Or UI pontifications

It's so tiresome and is slowly ruining HN for me personally.

Hear hear.

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