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wasimlorgat
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.
Yenrabbit
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 :)
r3trohack3r
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.

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

wskish
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.

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

Please do! That would be awesome.