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Made an app that summarizes recent popular stories from Hacker News

39 points by hezarfendd 3y ago

hezarfendd 3y ago
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 https://github.com/upstash/hackerdigest Looking forward to your feedback and suggestions!
- blotato 3y ago
  I'm usually most interested in the top 3 comments
  - hezarfendd 3y ago
    If thats the case I believe I can extend the app to do that.
taubek 3y ago
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 https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
aurareturn 3y ago
This is nice. Would be even better if it summarizes the comments as well.
- woolcap 3y ago
  Particularly if it summarized the key points of arguments on both sides of any debates.
  - samLjackson 3y ago
    [dead]
  - woolcap 3y ago
    Found this that summarizes comments as well as the article: https://hackyournews.com/ https://hackyournews.com/
jerrygoyal 3y ago
how does it work?
- hezarfendd 3y ago
  It's actually a opensource you check it yourself. TL;DR, we feed chatgpt with top 10 news each 6 hour.
qingcharles 3y ago
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/ https://hackernews.betacat.io/
- readthenotes1 3y ago
  It's one of those "Install" pages that's a pain to put on desktop. Otherwise, looked good!
Brajeshwar 3y ago
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/ https://www.newsminimalist.com/ for inspiration. Yours is this one with the summaries expanded.
- hezarfendd 3y ago
  Gotcha. I'll see what I can do.
giraffe_lady 3y ago
I wonder what happened to n-gate. http://n-gate.com http://n-gate.com
marginalia_nu 3y ago
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.
- bennetthi 3y ago
  +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"
- dnlkwk 3y ago
  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.
- ibestvina 3y ago
  Could you give an example of content where such critical distilation would be useful to you?
- just_boost_it 3y ago
  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.
raziel31 3y ago
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 https://t.me/hackernews_tr
readthenotes1 3y ago
I did not see the phrases "at war with its users" or "Rust brigade". I miss that guy.

39 points by hezarfendd 3y ago

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 https://github.com/upstash/hackerdigest Looking forward to your feedback and suggestions!

blotato 3y ago
I'm usually most interested in the top 3 comments
- hezarfendd 3y ago
  If thats the case I believe I can extend the app to do that.

taubek 3y ago

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 https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

aurareturn 3y ago

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

woolcap 3y ago
Particularly if it summarized the key points of arguments on both sides of any debates.
- samLjackson 3y ago
  [dead]
- woolcap 3y ago
  Found this that summarizes comments as well as the article: https://hackyournews.com/ https://hackyournews.com/

jerrygoyal 3y ago

how does it work?

hezarfendd 3y ago
It's actually a opensource you check it yourself. TL;DR, we feed chatgpt with top 10 news each 6 hour.

qingcharles 3y ago

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/ https://hackernews.betacat.io/

readthenotes1 3y ago
It's one of those "Install" pages that's a pain to put on desktop. Otherwise, looked good!

Brajeshwar 3y ago

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

hezarfendd 3y ago
Gotcha. I'll see what I can do.

giraffe_lady 3y ago

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

marginalia_nu 3y ago

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.

bennetthi 3y ago
+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"
dnlkwk 3y ago
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.
ibestvina 3y ago
Could you give an example of content where such critical distilation would be useful to you?
just_boost_it 3y ago
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.

raziel31 3y ago

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 https://t.me/hackernews_tr

readthenotes1 3y ago

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