Show HN: HackYourNews – AI summaries of the top HN stories (hackyournews.com)

Perfect. Now I finally don't have to click the links

It looks like the "de-hyped title" and summary for this submission ended up coming from the current top story on the NSO iPhone 0-day?

I'm not sure I would ever use this.

I wouldn't use it for the same reason I cultivate my own RSS feed and pay very little attention to mainstream media and mainstream social media.

I don't like the risks around outside forces shaping what news I get fed to me.

I really like this. I just read about 2 stories (of significant interest) whose titles I'd glanced at but hadn't clicked on on HN. Also like that it summarises the comments, as some posts tend to be conversation starters and the really interesting stuff is in the discussion (as opposed to the link/artcile).

I really like the look of it, especially as a slow reader. I couldn't see a way to click back over to the HN comments. Nice work!

This is really great! Sometimes the titles of stories are very generic and the comments are very specific, and this bridges the gap.

Could you add RSS to it?

This is great, Also the wealth of knowledge lies within the comments. I wish there was a way of getting the overview of the comments under each post

Great idea! Recommending tweaking the prompts so it uses more concise language without filler words (it seems to like starting with'The article is about...' or 'This is a discussion of').

This is great. If it was really intelligent it would be smart enough to move what's buried deep in the article to the front of the summary.

E.g. in the post "Are any words the same in all languages?" the summary concludes with: "Finally, the article reveals the two words that are the same worldwide: coffee and chocolate."

That should be the first sentence in the summary.

Congrats on launching!

What is the 'rating' based on? Thanks for having dark/light responsiveness!

This is cool. I’d add a feature to toggle between short, medium and longer summaries. Hell, I wouldn’t mind just bullets.

I was talking with ChatGPT4 about how best to summarize comments. Landed on sorting them into a few categories:

1. Surface-Level Content: Meme/Shallow Humor 2. Intermediate-Level Content: Opinionated/Analytical 3. In-Depth Content: Research-based / Thoughtful Discourse 4. Meta Level: Meta discussion about the platform, the discussion process itself or overarching themes

Would be interesting to see all comments given a rating icon from grey to red to green to white to make insightful comments standout more

I didn't expect to actually like it, well done for making me change my mind :-)

Slight feedback:

- Many "comments" summary start with boilerplate such as "This content discusses" which a bit annoying.

- It would be good to have a sense of "controversy" in the comments summary. Like some kind of general "mood".

This is very helpful! I see that a GitHub gist/file isn’t summarized and just mentions that it is code. What is the input to the summarization? Do you use the entire HTML (header, footer, sidebar, etc.) for summarization or do you do any processing between crawling and summarization?

I don't think I'd use this in its current form. Its abbreviated the article but still not enough.

What I'd prefer is just a more appropriate AI generated title in as dense a sentence as possible.

OP: You should play with word lengths to see how short a title/abbreviation you can achieve.

I asked ChatGPT to 'summarize in as few words as possible' and I got this:

Citizen Lab found a zero-click vulnerability, BLASTPASS, exploiting iPhones to deliver NSO's Pegasus spyware via malicious PassKit iMessage attachments. Apple released an update; users advised to apply immediately. Discovery emphasizes advanced threats to civil societies; update protects global devices.

Due to the styling, the text is unusably difficult to read, at least for me.

Congrats on the launch, @ukuina! Neat idea. Would love to learn more about how you are querying the summaries/comments database and how you are planning to extend the queries in this app.

Shameless self-plug: We are building EvaDB [1], a query engine for shipping fast AI-powered apps with SQL. Here is an illustrative query for analyzing food reviews stored in Postgres and generating responses for negative reviews:

  SELECT ChatGPT("Respond to the review with a solution to address the reviewer's concern", review)  
  FROM postgres_data.review_table  
  WHERE ChatGPT("Is the review positive or negative? Only reply 'positive' or 'negative'.", review) = "negative"
      AND location = “waffle house”;

It would be interesting to learn about the queries needed for supporting HackYourNews application. Would love to exchange notes on this if you're up for it!

[1] https://github.com/georgia-tech-db/evadb

  SELECT ChatGPT("Respond to the review with a solution to address the reviewer's concern", review)  
    FROM postgres_data.review_table  
    WHERE ChatGPT("Is the review positive or negative?", review) LIKE "%positive%"
        AND location = “waffle house”;

Funny to see the site itself sitting at the 3rd position right now and the AI summarizing its own page. It seems to be using content that is not shown on the page though, maybe an og:description meta tag. Otherwise it would be spiraling in an infinite loop of summarizing itself.

Small comment: the "dehyped" title does not seem very useful. For most articles it is almost the same as the original title, just rephrased. It should summarize the conclusion or whatever the meat of the article actually is. Repeating the same thing or similar is just a waste of time and space.

Also it seems broken on the site itself, but that could be the AI getting confused on what the actual page title should be. It picked the top story as the dehyped title, which I guess is understandable but when generating a title for a news feed, it's wrong.

Would prefer an AI-powered N-gate.

> The frontend is pure HTML+CSS.

I wondered why there is a special URL for mobile, since this could be easy done by media queries.

On a side note; I desperately need a dark mode and even installed an extension to make HN dark mode compatible.

This works surprisingly well! I would probably just switch to using it instead of the native HN interface if it had the other article action buttons. Mainly I want to “hide” the summaries that I’ve already seen.

This will be very useful! I missed a lot of interesting stories in HN just because the title seems unrelated to me.