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Show HN: Hackerbrief – Top posts on Hacker News summarized daily

82 points by p0u4a 7mo ago

nikolas_sapa 6mo ago
why not someone use an n8n automation where it automatically fetches its and get telegram message? just asking so I can help you develop the idea
throwaway12pol 7mo ago
Nice! Would be great to also get a summary of the comments.
- amelius 7mo ago
  +1
- trutz 7mo ago
  +1 - I would find a comment summary even more important then the article itself.
- p0u4a 7mo ago
  Great suggestion. Will add this tomorrow
unkeen 7mo ago
"Hackerbrief" means "hacker letter" in German.
- vidarh 7mo ago
  "brief" also has a similar meaning in English, in (several) alternative meanings of "brief" to mean a precis, summary, position paper of various kinds. Both are derived from latin breve/brevis - "short". You'll find variants with one or other of those meanings all derived from latin in a number of other languages too, e.g. "brev" in Norwegian (letter).
imadch 7mo ago
I think it will be great if we have a mobile app with push notification about most important news ...
amelius 7mo ago
A brief (one short paragraph) summary in HN would be nice and it would prevent kneejerk reactions on the title.
cyrusmg 7mo ago
Nice - that looks useful. Would it be possible to: - do "horizontal" swiping gesture to go to next/previous summarized article? Kind of like instagram stories - keep the link to original article as I scroll through the summary so I can quickly navigate to full article if the summary is interesting?
- p0u4a 7mo ago
  yeah that would be awesome, will land it tomorrow
  - cyrusmg 7mo ago
    Looking forward to that, I have added it to my home screen :thumbsup:
  - cyrusmg 6mo ago
    It doesn’t seem to work anymore, it’s stuck in the same set of text
qsort 7mo ago
I think the concept is great, I'd love something like this even more broadly, sort of a daily "customizable" newspaper. The issue I see is that it's a bit... bland? Obviously you're doing this with AI and there's no other way to do it, but one of the main reasons why something like HN has stayed relevant for this long is its variety: front page stories often have remarkable diversity, not only in topics and content, but also in tone and writing style. I feel a digest like this one flattens everything more than I'd like.
- p0u4a 7mo ago
  I've been thinking about this for a while too. Probably what I will do is create embeddings of the frontpage results and then let users pick 3-5 topics that they would like to see. Then summarize the top 10 for those topics.
- celltalk 7mo ago
  Basically, https://duobook.co https://duobook.co :)
- 0907 7mo ago
  Something I've been tinkering on for the last few weeks is absent.dev[1], was working towards getting the guts to share this on HN but there's a few things I want to polish first. This is the MVP, but it will essentially be moving towards what you're suggesting, much more customisable news aggregation and more importantly, where you consume it. Feed agnostic, channel agnostic, in the form(s) you want (longform, shortform, summary, tl;dr etc). You can check the clustering logic on the digest[2]. 1. https://absent.dev/ https://absent.dev/ 2. https://absent.dev/episode/ABS-0014/clusters https://absent.dev/episode/ABS-0014/clusters
- embedding-shape 7mo ago
  > Obviously you're doing this with AI and there's no other way to do it What do you mean "no other way to do it"? Traditionally these sort of things been curated, by humans who read and make judgements, how is that not another way to do it? Probably would solve the whole "bit... bland?" problem to, given the right curator.
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codetiger 7mo ago
Concept looks good. Just needs some more polishing like Newspaper theme, Endless swiping, HN like dark/light theme etc on mobile app.
rubycollect4812 7mo ago
Looks interesting. At the end of the newest post there is a npm update alert. That should be an easy fix though :)
logicallee 7mo ago
looks great. please add email signup, I'd like to receive this as a daily newsletter.
xnorswap 7mo ago
I didn't recognise the top story ( about cannaboids ) at all. I then went to "past" and nothing from yesterday. I then realised this site is based off the current front-page. So I forced the "past" page to be today, and it's the third result: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2026-03-16 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2026-03-16 But it's not on my actual front-page. So this must have been done at a very brief window when this story was top, which even hnrankings didn't capture: https://hnrankings.info/47393619/ https://hnrankings.info/47393619/ I think this would be better if powered by https://news.ycombinator.com/front https://news.ycombinator.com/front , which is relatively stable after a day. Otherwise you've ended up with a brief snapshot, and not the top posts of the day. It also seems odd to have a "summary of 16/03" produced while that day has barely begun in the US timezone, so looking retrospectively at the previous day would make this better.
- p0u4a 7mo ago
  Hmm, yeah I suppose you're right. I'm currently using the algolia api https://hn.algolia.com/ https://hn.algolia.com/ Will look into tightening this up
SilentEditor 7mo ago
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jacquesm 7mo ago
https://www.hndigest.com/ https://www.hndigest.com/ http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/
- qznc 7mo ago
  I would have appreciated a sarcastic summary like http://n-gate.com/hackernews/ http://n-gate.com/hackernews/
  - jacquesm 7mo ago
    They've been dead for ages haven't they?
yuppiepuppie 7mo ago
We dont do "top-posts" but we do most Game posts in case you are insterested :) https://hnarcade.com https://hnarcade.com
genie3io 7mo ago
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CrzyLngPwd 7mo ago
"I am sorry, but I cannot provide a summary. The provided content is empty." This was for the bigfoot story: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-new-bigfoot-documentary-helps-explain-our-conspiracy-minded-era/ar-AA1Yv6px https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-new-bigfoot-documentary-... I wonder why.
Yash16 7mo ago
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tom1337 7mo ago
> Hackerbrief > No digest yet. Trigger `GET /api/cron/digest`. > GET https://hackerbrief.vercel.app/api/cron/digest https://hackerbrief.vercel.app/api/cron/digest > 401 Unauthorized hmm
- Wistar 7mo ago
  Same. At least at this moment. iPad.
- wek 7mo ago
  Same
- Liftyee 7mo ago
  Same on Firefox desktop.
- p0u4a 6mo ago
  I was on Vercel free tier and hit the quota for blob storage. Will probably make it open source so people can self host
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latchkey 7mo ago
HN already has these features... Active: https://news.ycombinator.com/active https://news.ycombinator.com/active Highlights: https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights
RobRivera 7mo ago
Am I being fair when I immediately categorize anything as a summary as a data dump from an AI?
ramon156 7mo ago
? This has been done before, plus apps like Harmonic support Best by X hrs. Do people love re-inventing the wheel before googling "drive car from A to B"?
- hidelooktropic 7mo ago
  Oh relax. Let people make things. It's okay to have more than one take on an idea.
mplanchard 7mo ago
Man, I miss n-gate more than ever
karmakaze 6mo ago
I can't see the page at the moment (getting the No digest yet). I made a thing[0] that splits stories by day without mixing old popular with new stories. That helped cut down my HN visits to a few times per day. [I had originally made it to list all stories on one page and load story links at stops in a subway/metro commute.] What I'm finding now is that there's too much noise at the top and what I really want to see are the stories not upvoted by mainstream/populist interests--if anyone knows a solution to that, please share. [0] https://hackerer.news/ https://hackerer.news/
p0u4a 6mo ago
Edit: I was hosting this on Vercel free tier, and since this post made it to the front page, I've hit Vercel's quota limit. I will work on getting around this.
- tonymet 6mo ago
  how about static hosting?
KnowFun 6mo ago
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p0u4a 6mo ago
Aaaand we’re back
CrewHaus 6mo ago
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82 points by p0u4a 7mo ago

why not someone use an n8n automation where it automatically fetches its and get telegram message? just asking so I can help you develop the idea

throwaway12pol 7mo ago

Nice! Would be great to also get a summary of the comments.

amelius 7mo ago
+1
trutz 7mo ago
+1 - I would find a comment summary even more important then the article itself.
p0u4a 7mo ago
Great suggestion. Will add this tomorrow

unkeen 7mo ago

"Hackerbrief" means "hacker letter" in German.

vidarh 7mo ago
"brief" also has a similar meaning in English, in (several) alternative meanings of "brief" to mean a precis, summary, position paper of various kinds. Both are derived from latin breve/brevis - "short". You'll find variants with one or other of those meanings all derived from latin in a number of other languages too, e.g. "brev" in Norwegian (letter).

imadch 7mo ago

I think it will be great if we have a mobile app with push notification about most important news ...

amelius 7mo ago

A brief (one short paragraph) summary in HN would be nice and it would prevent kneejerk reactions on the title.

cyrusmg 7mo ago

Nice - that looks useful. Would it be possible to: - do "horizontal" swiping gesture to go to next/previous summarized article? Kind of like instagram stories - keep the link to original article as I scroll through the summary so I can quickly navigate to full article if the summary is interesting?

p0u4a 7mo ago
yeah that would be awesome, will land it tomorrow
- cyrusmg 7mo ago
  Looking forward to that, I have added it to my home screen :thumbsup:
- cyrusmg 6mo ago
  It doesn’t seem to work anymore, it’s stuck in the same set of text

qsort 7mo ago

I think the concept is great, I'd love something like this even more broadly, sort of a daily "customizable" newspaper. The issue I see is that it's a bit... bland? Obviously you're doing this with AI and there's no other way to do it, but one of the main reasons why something like HN has stayed relevant for this long is its variety: front page stories often have remarkable diversity, not only in topics and content, but also in tone and writing style. I feel a digest like this one flattens everything more than I'd like.

p0u4a 7mo ago
I've been thinking about this for a while too. Probably what I will do is create embeddings of the frontpage results and then let users pick 3-5 topics that they would like to see. Then summarize the top 10 for those topics.
celltalk 7mo ago
Basically, https://duobook.co https://duobook.co :)
0907 7mo ago
Something I've been tinkering on for the last few weeks is absent.dev[1], was working towards getting the guts to share this on HN but there's a few things I want to polish first. This is the MVP, but it will essentially be moving towards what you're suggesting, much more customisable news aggregation and more importantly, where you consume it. Feed agnostic, channel agnostic, in the form(s) you want (longform, shortform, summary, tl;dr etc). You can check the clustering logic on the digest[2]. 1. https://absent.dev/ https://absent.dev/ 2. https://absent.dev/episode/ABS-0014/clusters https://absent.dev/episode/ABS-0014/clusters
embedding-shape 7mo ago
> Obviously you're doing this with AI and there's no other way to do it What do you mean "no other way to do it"? Traditionally these sort of things been curated, by humans who read and make judgements, how is that not another way to do it? Probably would solve the whole "bit... bland?" problem to, given the right curator.

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codetiger 7mo ago

Concept looks good. Just needs some more polishing like Newspaper theme, Endless swiping, HN like dark/light theme etc on mobile app.

rubycollect4812 7mo ago

Looks interesting. At the end of the newest post there is a npm update alert. That should be an easy fix though :)

logicallee 7mo ago

looks great. please add email signup, I'd like to receive this as a daily newsletter.

xnorswap 7mo ago

I didn't recognise the top story ( about cannaboids ) at all. I then went to "past" and nothing from yesterday. I then realised this site is based off the current front-page. So I forced the "past" page to be today, and it's the third result: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2026-03-16 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2026-03-16 But it's not on my actual front-page. So this must have been done at a very brief window when this story was top, which even hnrankings didn't capture: https://hnrankings.info/47393619/ https://hnrankings.info/47393619/ I think this would be better if powered by https://news.ycombinator.com/front https://news.ycombinator.com/front , which is relatively stable after a day. Otherwise you've ended up with a brief snapshot, and not the top posts of the day. It also seems odd to have a "summary of 16/03" produced while that day has barely begun in the US timezone, so looking retrospectively at the previous day would make this better.

p0u4a 7mo ago
Hmm, yeah I suppose you're right. I'm currently using the algolia api https://hn.algolia.com/ https://hn.algolia.com/ Will look into tightening this up

SilentEditor 7mo ago

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jacquesm 7mo ago

https://www.hndigest.com/ https://www.hndigest.com/ http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/

qznc 7mo ago
I would have appreciated a sarcastic summary like http://n-gate.com/hackernews/ http://n-gate.com/hackernews/
- jacquesm 7mo ago
  They've been dead for ages haven't they?

yuppiepuppie 7mo ago

We dont do "top-posts" but we do most Game posts in case you are insterested :) https://hnarcade.com https://hnarcade.com

genie3io 7mo ago

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CrzyLngPwd 7mo ago

"I am sorry, but I cannot provide a summary. The provided content is empty." This was for the bigfoot story: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-new-bigfoot-documentary-helps-explain-our-conspiracy-minded-era/ar-AA1Yv6px https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-new-bigfoot-documentary-... I wonder why.

Yash16 7mo ago

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tom1337 7mo ago

> Hackerbrief > No digest yet. Trigger `GET /api/cron/digest`. > GET https://hackerbrief.vercel.app/api/cron/digest https://hackerbrief.vercel.app/api/cron/digest > 401 Unauthorized hmm

Wistar 7mo ago
Same. At least at this moment. iPad.
wek 7mo ago
Same
Liftyee 7mo ago
Same on Firefox desktop.
p0u4a 6mo ago
I was on Vercel free tier and hit the quota for blob storage. Will probably make it open source so people can self host

deleted 7mo ago

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latchkey 7mo ago

HN already has these features... Active: https://news.ycombinator.com/active https://news.ycombinator.com/active Highlights: https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights

RobRivera 7mo ago

Am I being fair when I immediately categorize anything as a summary as a data dump from an AI?

ramon156 7mo ago

? This has been done before, plus apps like Harmonic support Best by X hrs. Do people love re-inventing the wheel before googling "drive car from A to B"?

hidelooktropic 7mo ago
Oh relax. Let people make things. It's okay to have more than one take on an idea.

mplanchard 7mo ago

Man, I miss n-gate more than ever

karmakaze 6mo ago

I can't see the page at the moment (getting the No digest yet). I made a thing[0] that splits stories by day without mixing old popular with new stories. That helped cut down my HN visits to a few times per day. [I had originally made it to list all stories on one page and load story links at stops in a subway/metro commute.] What I'm finding now is that there's too much noise at the top and what I really want to see are the stories not upvoted by mainstream/populist interests--if anyone knows a solution to that, please share. [0] https://hackerer.news/ https://hackerer.news/

p0u4a 6mo ago

Edit: I was hosting this on Vercel free tier, and since this post made it to the front page, I've hit Vercel's quota limit. I will work on getting around this.

tonymet 6mo ago
how about static hosting?

KnowFun 6mo ago

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p0u4a 6mo ago

Aaaand we’re back

CrewHaus 6mo ago

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