Show HN: HackYourNews – AI summaries of the top HN stories

Hey there HN!

I wanted to share a pet project of mine. I built HackYourNews [1] to scratch a personal itch: Knowing which stories to focus on while browsing aimlessly (though there is a certain joy in that, as well!)

HackYourNews uses OpenAI's gpt-3.5-turbo to summarize the destination article as well as the comments section. Summarization of the article is always cached, while summaries of the comments are regenerated if the comments count is >10% (or >10 comments) different.

While I styled the homepage to welcome HNers, my preferred view is the Mobile view, accessed from the navbar. This no-frills view honors OS-level dark mode and is easy to skim on any device.

Tried to keep the site minimal. The only JS is Cloudflare's privacy-preserving analytics [2], just to gauge interest.

This is the first time I'm releasing something to the wild.

Hope you find this useful!

The frontend is pure HTML+CSS.

The backend is NodeJS (Puppeteer) + Python with the excellent Microsoft Guidance [3] library to interface to OpenAI's API.

[1] https://hackyournews.com/

[2] https://www.cloudflare.com/web-analytics/

[3] https://github.com/guidance-ai/guidance

Show HN: HackYourNews – AI summaries of the top HN stories
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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 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 think this will always be a problem for links that are aggregators of other articles, since the body of the destination page is effectively a mix of summaries. For now, I've overridden the summary of the comments as the summary of the article.