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qsort wrote: post #7

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,…

Not a perfect solution but I wonder if asking the LLM to preserve style when summarizing works well. I will have to try that. Because they do indeed otherwise default to bland slop style.

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

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Post by tom1337 » Mon, Mar 16, 2026, 4:14 PM UTC

> Hackerbrief

> No digest yet. Trigger `GET /api/cron/digest`.

> GET https://hackerbrief.vercel.app/api/cron/digest

> 401 Unauthorized

hmm

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

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Post by vidarh » Mon, Mar 16, 2026, 4:26 PM UTC

unkeen wrote: post #3

"Hackerbrief" means "hacker letter" in German.

"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).

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

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Post by Wistar » Mon, Mar 16, 2026, 4:30 PM UTC

tom1337 wrote: post #28

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

Same. At least at this moment. iPad.