This strikes a balance with one's use of time and "fear of missing out" (FOMO). Thank you, yunusabd, for creating this service. As a side note, I've been following HN headlines and comments for a very long time, but only just now created an account, just so that I could write this comment to express my thanks to you. On the subject of wishing for additional features: I agree with someone else who commented about how it would be nice to have some form of a daily summary, or maybe broken into three portions of summaries per day: morning, afternoon and evening. Additionally, those three portions would also (ideally) remain available and not be removed, so that a person might go back and review a particular range of times/days. This would be much more practical to enable a person to be able to keep up with most of the developments, but without needing to check in once every hour.
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#62Brilliant 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…
> as I get older, I find that I have less energy for
Side comment: When a person says something like that, they might be speaking of only themself, but there's a different parsing that many will hear.
Ageism is a real problem in our field, and one thing we can do is to not accidentally feed it.
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#63Next step- create an HNN news network with chyrons and AI news anchors that you can have running on the TVs in your office 24/7 the way banks have CNBC and Bloomberg News running
Im reminded of the talking heads in Batman Beyond that were presumably AIs.
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#64I started listening to it after this very submission became #1 on HN, so it was very meta to listen to it talk about how it might be making stuff up...
Great project!
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
So my energy levels have declined noticeably from age 20 to 30. I thought it was mostly my own chronic health issues causing accelerated aging, but many of my friends are making similar complaints. I did notice far before this point (e.g. age 10 to 20) that my patience for reading had gone down significantly. If I had to guess I'd say that in my case it's due to an underlying anxiety that started in early teens and n…
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.
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#66Hah! 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 that while the value of such a service is evident, trust in the accuracy of the content remains a critical issue.
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#67Enjoyed this a lot! Particularly enjoyed the meta update about this thread. There are some neat suggestions here, but if this could come up on my podcast feed as-is I would listen to it.
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#68Would 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 curious how other folks use embeddings. I know you can average multiple embeddings together, but is anyone else doing other translations and having success? Thinking of King - Man + Women = Queen, It seems a lot of the time I see questions being directly used as inputs for semantic search/RAG. I wonder if it might make sense to create a large set of question-answer pairs and embed them and then determine the average translation to move from “question space” to “answer space”, then when you embed questions you apply the translation on the embedding to move it into “answer space” before performing RAG, or maybe this would just add too much noise?
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
So my energy levels have declined noticeably from age 20 to 30. I thought it was mostly my own chronic health issues causing accelerated aging, but many of my friends are making similar complaints. I did notice far before this point (e.g. age 10 to 20) that my patience for reading had gone down significantly. If I had to guess I'd say that in my case it's due to an underlying anxiety that started in early teens and n…
Wanted to share that I also had intense anxiety/depression well into my thirties but was able to finally sort it out a few years ago.
I think your phrase "learn how to relax" is spot-on. I was chronically under-slept and chronically over-focused on school, university, career, side-hustle(s), etc.--without much great effect I might add. My brain was so wound up from a decade-plus of hyper-vigilance that I had actually forgotten how to relax.
Obviously, I am not you and n=1, but hopefully it is encouraging to know that you might not always need to drown it out.
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#70Did anyone notice it reporting about itself now? This will definitely go into the archive :)
Haha yes!!