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Interesting, I actually did a search before submitting mine, but I narrowed it down to the last year only. Yours being 2y/o didn't show up. You were ahead of your time!
There was also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35831177 some times after mine. Indeed a bit before the one year period from now.
Brilliant idea. I think this has real value as well: as I get older, I find that I have less energy for reading, but I also notice I often miss really cool stuff that was briefly on the front of HN. I like that it summarizes the comments too. There are often real gems buried in there. (I assume you're only taking a few top ones?) I think a great improvement could be made with personalization. Most of what's on the fr…
agreed on energy for reading. do you think it’s that we’re getting older or that the friction associated with consuming information is just getting lower and lower over time?
If you're eating snacks all day, you won't have a healthy appetite for proper meals.
I noticed on vacation I spend far less time online, and a lot more time reading books.
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I never had ADHD or related attention problems. However, I find the way interwebs has evolved over years and to basically trained our brains to be so focused on super short pieces of simply digestible content has basically turned me off of longer form content. I’ve noticed my preference for immediate gratification has increased significantly. It feels like I’m developing an attention disorder in my middle age years.
I can't read long form content from a phone screen or computer monitor. I really don't like it. It might be the scrolling, or maybe the type of screen, or conditioning to expect instant gratification. I do, however, read 20-30 books a year, both paper and on an ereader. I think it's super important to make reading a habit so one must identify what doesn't work for them and try something else. You lose so much if you…
I got a Kobo recently and I don't like it much. It's much duller than my last one, which is either due to the color screen having less contrast or me misremembering.
Kobo's main selling point was that it's not botnet, but I couldn't even turn the thing on without making an online account...
Brilliant idea. I think this has real value as well: as I get older, I find that I have less energy for reading, but I also notice I often miss really cool stuff that was briefly on the front of HN. I like that it summarizes the comments too. There are often real gems buried in there. (I assume you're only taking a few top ones?) I think a great improvement could be made with personalization. Most of what's on the fr…
> Yeah, the YouTube algorithm kind of does this, but you unfortunately have no real control over it.) You do, indirectly. Just need to curate your last watched videos. Sometimes I feel like I got put into a certain genre or bubble or if things autopplay a when I sleep I'll not ice my front page being taken over. I just go delete some of those videos from my recent list I can see visible improvement. Or just start a f…
It's probably because I last used that one 10+ years ago when it seems things were a little more lighthearted (at least in my digital world). Going back to that recommendations page in current year was a truly magical experience.
Of course it didn't last though, within a few weeks algorithm was onto me, and went back to showing me the same stuff as on my old account.
Would be cool to create embeddings for historical HN posts, and then use a users favorite posts to personalize the post selection by averaging the embedding vectors for a users favorite posts then doing a cosine similarity search to select stories most likely to be of interest to a user. Although it would be even better to use a users like history, but I’m not sure if/how those can be accessed. Speaking of, I’m curio…
Pretty neat but it seems to make stuff up. It took a meta comment from this post[1] about the website formatting and suggested the community was worried the C++ memory safety proposal would make code hard to read on mobile. It is hard to trust the other summaries after hearing that. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41899828
Last week I had a similar idea as you. I created a webpage called https://zeli.app that automatically helps you parse the content of posts from the HN homepage, rewrite the titles, and generate abstracts. So, I ended up with these post fragments, and I tried feeding these title + abstract lists to Claude 3.5 Sonnet to string them together into a 5-minute English podcast, emphasizing on making these fragments flow coh…
Hah! Here's what it had to say about itself this hour: > In a more self-referential turn, we examine the launch of HN Update itself. This initiative aims to provide hourly news broadcasts, summarizing top stories from Hacker News. While listeners appreciate the concept of curated news, there are concerns about the accuracy of the summaries and the potential for bias in representation. Community discussion suggests th…
Very cute and kind of impressive.
I did https://radio-hn.pages.dev/ last year in the same idea, just once per day. Posted it somewhere here at the time.
Is the code for this available? I'm particularly curious how you did the multiple speakers and voices.
NotebookLM has the issue that they keep switching sides, like one will be the student and the other the teacher on a subject, but then they'll suddenly switch in a way that makes no sense.
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I can't read long form content from a phone screen or computer monitor. I really don't like it. It might be the scrolling, or maybe the type of screen, or conditioning to expect instant gratification. I do, however, read 20-30 books a year, both paper and on an ereader. I think it's super important to make reading a habit so one must identify what doesn't work for them and try something else. You lose so much if you…
Yeah, reading on a screen is ass. What eReader do you use? I got a Kobo recently and I don't like it much. It's much duller than my last one, which is either due to the color screen having less contrast or me misremembering. Kobo's main selling point was that it's not botnet, but I couldn't even turn the thing on without making an online account...
I actually prefer lower contrast, it gives me less eye fatigue and I've specifically chosen low-contrast themes on my computer for as long as I can remember.
I think there is a way to not create the account if you really don't want to. I put KOReader on mine straight away and never use the built-in software. That also incidentally has an option to adjust the contrast.