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

34 points by Yenrabbit 4y ago

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!

Yenrabbit 4y ago
This was a fun little Christmas project. I did a quick write-up and video here: https://datasciencecastnet.home.blog/2022/12/30/distilhn-summarizing-news-articles-with-transformers/ https://datasciencecastnet.home.blog/2022/12/30/distilhn-sum...
wasimlorgat 4y ago
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 4y ago
  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 4y ago
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 4y ago
  Thank you! I'll look at adding that tomorrow :)
metadat 4y ago
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-summarizing-news-articles-with-transformers/ 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!
- Yenrabbit 4y ago
  At this stage it's a one-day hack but here's the script: https://gist.github.com/johnowhitaker/741e9c9f16f7eb9c879bc0dbcd780b59 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 https://youtu.be/TBqzMfWpQrs
- wskish 4y ago
  Here is an open source HN summarizer that publishes the summaries to a Telegram channel: https://github.com/jiggy-ai/hn_summary https://github.com/jiggy-ai/hn_summary I have been thinking about adding an RSS feed option as well.
  - askiiart 4y ago
    > I have been thinking about adding an RSS feed option as well. Please do! That would be awesome.

34 points by Yenrabbit 4y ago

Yenrabbit 4y ago

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

wasimlorgat 4y ago

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 4y ago
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 4y ago

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 4y ago
Thank you! I'll look at adding that tomorrow :)

metadat 4y ago

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-summarizing-news-articles-with-transformers/ 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!

Yenrabbit 4y ago
At this stage it's a one-day hack but here's the script: https://gist.github.com/johnowhitaker/741e9c9f16f7eb9c879bc0dbcd780b59 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 https://youtu.be/TBqzMfWpQrs
wskish 4y ago
Here is an open source HN summarizer that publishes the summaries to a Telegram channel: https://github.com/jiggy-ai/hn_summary https://github.com/jiggy-ai/hn_summary I have been thinking about adding an RSS feed option as well.
- askiiart 4y ago
  > I have been thinking about adding an RSS feed option as well. Please do! That would be awesome.