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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,…
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,…
1. https://absent.dev/ 2. https://absent.dev/episode/ABS-0014/clusters
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?
yeah that would be awesome, will land it tomorrow
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,…
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.
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
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/
I think this would be better if powered by 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.
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,…
> 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.
That would not be a mere project, but a huge commitment. Which would be devalued if the content was not published consistently, regularly, predictably with no vacations, etc.
It would be a truly honorable commitment (I greatly appreciate similar efforts by people elsewhere), but not one to be made lightly.
(Edit: despite the "not a...but a" construction above, this comment is HI only, and not even much of that! :-)
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 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 hn…
Will look into tightening this up