This is cool. I’d add a feature to toggle between short, medium and longer summaries. Hell, I wouldn’t mind just bullets.
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#22This is great, Also the wealth of knowledge lies within the comments. I wish there was a way of getting the overview of the comments under each post
Thank you. There should be a summary of comments right below the summary of the article.
This is a great app! You might want to put Summary and Comments as headings or at least make them bolder for easy scanning.
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#23I was talking with ChatGPT4 about how best to summarize comments. Landed on sorting them into a few categories:
1. Surface-Level Content: Meme/Shallow Humor 2. Intermediate-Level Content: Opinionated/Analytical 3. In-Depth Content: Research-based / Thoughtful Discourse 4. Meta Level: Meta discussion about the platform, the discussion process itself or overarching themes
Would be interesting to see all comments given a rating icon from grey to red to green to white to make insightful comments standout more
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#24Could you add RSS to it?
Exactly my thought - I consume everything through fulltext RSS, but for HN I only get the title and links to the article and comments (through hnrss) - having summaries would be a great improvement! A great alternative would also be if there was some kind of an API to access the summaries
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#25I didn't expect to actually like it, well done for making me change my mind :-)
Slight feedback:
- Many "comments" summary start with boilerplate such as "This content discusses" which a bit annoying.
- It would be good to have a sense of "controversy" in the comments summary. Like some kind of general "mood".
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#26I'm not sure I would ever use this. I wouldn't use it for the same reason I cultivate my own RSS feed and pay very little attention to mainstream media and mainstream social media. I don't like the risks around outside forces shaping what news I get fed to me.
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#27This is very helpful! I see that a GitHub gist/file isn’t summarized and just mentions that it is code. What is the input to the summarization? Do you use the entire HTML (header, footer, sidebar, etc.) for summarization or do you do any processing between crawling and summarization?
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#29I don't think I'd use this in its current form. Its abbreviated the article but still not enough.
What I'd prefer is just a more appropriate AI generated title in as dense a sentence as possible.
OP: You should play with word lengths to see how short a title/abbreviation you can achieve.
I asked ChatGPT to 'summarize in as few words as possible' and I got this:
Citizen Lab found a zero-click vulnerability, BLASTPASS, exploiting iPhones to deliver NSO's Pegasus spyware via malicious PassKit iMessage attachments. Apple released an update; users advised to apply immediately. Discovery emphasizes advanced threats to civil societies; update protects global devices.
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#30I didn't expect to actually like it, well done for making me change my mind :-) Slight feedback: - Many "comments" summary start with boilerplate such as "This content discusses" which a bit annoying. - It would be good to have a sense of "controversy" in the comments summary. Like some kind of general "mood".
Awesome! Thank you for trying it out.
Will work on improving the conciseness of the summary and also surface the mood of the discussion.