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Re: Show HN: HN Update – Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories

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Post by yunusabd »

andai wrote: post #15

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…

Thanks for the comment, I'm really enjoying the discussion it has sparked.

Yes, I'm just taking the top comments, along with a few child comments, in order to not exceed the context window of the model.

Regarding personalization, there's definitely lots of potential. HN can be so random though, sometimes you find things that you didn't even know you needed (intellectually). I guess as with most recommender systems, it's about a balance between exploration and exploitation. Maybe an MVP could filter for specific keywords and add those posts to the model input.

Re: Show HN: HN Update – Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories

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Post by breck »

Fun stuff. It does feel like NotebookLM (and others) are hurtling us toward a future that seems inevitable: all content is public domain, and people consume it in many transformed ways.

Those that get ahead of the curve and make their content publicly available and semantically well structured will see their ideas thrive.

Here's my user test: https://news.pub/?try=https://www.loom.com/embed/9e8b8d454ee...

Re: Show HN: HN Update – Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories

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Post by yunusabd »

personjerry wrote: post #40

"First up a webgpu wifi simulator has emerged, although details remain sparse due to trouble extracting data from the linked resource" Sounds about right

Yeah, if you look at the page source, there's actually no text in the document body. At one point I will have to use a JS-capable browser, to capture pages like this one.

Re: Show HN: HN Update – Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories

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Post by yunusabd »

srik wrote: post #19

Neat! Personally hourly feels a bit much but a daily briefing that can fit inside a commute or on a short walk would be perfect. Might be the first ai podcast I'd subscribe to.

That seems to be the general consensus, I think it makes sense to move in that direction and beef it up a little.

Re: Show HN: HN Update – Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories

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Post by yunusabd »

kelsey98765431 wrote: post #32

Frankly this is super fantastic. Thank you. Any possibility to make this longer, and split it into sections with updates on previous stories at the end? I love this concept a lot.

Thank you! Most of the people here seem to prefer a longer form, so I think I'll move in that direction.

> split it into sections with updates on previous stories at the end

So basically, if a story comes up that has been reported on before, it references the older story and gives some context and the update? Something like "just last week, the Internet Archive had been the victim of another cyber-attack, in which [...]"?

Re: Show HN: HN Update – Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories

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Post by yunusabd »

syntaxing wrote: post #45

This is awesome, I wish it did a rolling 8 hour instead that is updated once a hour if that makes sense.

So the best of the last 8 hours, with a new episode every hour? I think that makes sense, you could check in every 8 hours or so and have a fresh set of stories.
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