I had a similar thing on my website for ages (probably 10 years or so) based on the open text summary tool. It works pretty good and is completely open source: https://www.splitbrain.org/services/ots
Ah right, thank you for letting us know.
Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpage in a click
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Re: Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpage in a click
#52I think it is a good summarizer, I also saw a few others cited in the comments. Has anyone seen one that is a browser add-in where if I am surfing around and see a long article but don't have time to read it I can click a button without copying and pasting the link ?
Hi,
We are glad that you liked it.
We also have a chrome extension which does exactly as you say - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tldr-this-free-aut...
Thank you very much for taking the time to use the app and provide your feedback.
Re: Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpage in a click
#53The mankind needs this. Cutting off the BS factory, no more copywritting, flashy headlines with unrelated news boddies, or copy-rewritting, or attention wasters and... the yet to appear ML generated article time wasters which are mash ups from others.
If your idea had a company behind I would invest in it. I wish it was a product which would generate a decent enough executive summary, so if I decide to invest more time into reading a whole article or just move on and filter all the BS floating on the internet.
HOWEVER the current status is far away from the desired expectations; try to input the "burnout" entry from HN top page and see the output (or any other article), and I am afraid the concept will stay science fiction for very long time since the amount of intelligence required to make executive summaries is sometimes not even met by new fresh university graduates.
Re: Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpage in a click
#54Hi everyone I am delighted to share my new project "TLDR This" with you guys. Problem : There's so much content out there but too little time to read. So many times, it happens that there's a long article that we're interested in, but we don't really feel like scouring through it to extract relevant information from it. Hence, I created "TLDR This" to help you navigate relevant content quickly and easily, without hav…
Introduce this article: https://johnnyrodgers.is/burnout
Each section subtitle is displayed as a sentence. Could you maybe ML generate a 1 sentence summary for section? I don't think there is an ML which could extract the take aways from each section and make a summary correctly, but that was my original expectation when I saw it first time.
Re: Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpage in a click
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hi, - Yes, you are totally right. TextRank is an extractive method. - Ah right. But we aren't storing any information on our servers, just showing selected sentences to the user. - We select the top 5 sentences which have the highest relevancy to the article. I am not an expert in this field so not too sure if that's the best way. Just started with NLP a few days back and wanted to test it out by developing a small a…
> But we aren't storing any information on our servers, just showing selected sentences to the user. If this is in reference to the copyright comment, it doesn't matter -- you're still transmitting/redistributing the content, which is what matters. One way to get around this is to ship the code and have the code execute on the user's machine (i.e. what you're presumably doing with the extension).
If this were true then Evernote's web clipper would too be infringing copyright... (it is transmitting and redistributing the content)
Re: Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpage in a click
#56I tried in on the HN guidelines and then on the output. So the summary of the summary is:
>What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting.
which isn't bad really.
Re: Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpage in a click
#57Is there a premium version where I can have text summarized by actual living, breathing, human beings?
This would be a useful service. My first thought was “use something like mechanical turk”.
That lead into what I believe is the harder problem which is that in order to provide a useful text summary of articles of any topic is that you need to have people who understand the article content.
To make a summary service which is useful, we would need to have “summarizers” who can not only understand a myriad of topics but also possess a deeper understanding of the article domain so the summary is a faithful “distillation” of the original. As we all know, this is not easy, unless you have some expertise in that particular field.
This sort of reminds me of on demand translating services. In a past life I had the need to use translators for technical and legal documents. There were services that offered translators who specialize in certain areas, such as law or technical software writing, for example.
Re: Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpage in a click
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's such a ridiculous consequence of our field/times. Edit: How about the backend just returns pointers to the text (word #x till word #y) and the js just (re)assembles it?
If I understand correctly, that would still require information to be transmitted to the server, ergo copyright infringement.
Which information? The server is then not reproducing/transmitting/redistributing the content, only indices into the content. I don't see why this would be copyright infringement.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hi, - Yes, you are totally right. TextRank is an extractive method. - Ah right. But we aren't storing any information on our servers, just showing selected sentences to the user. - We select the top 5 sentences which have the highest relevancy to the article. I am not an expert in this field so not too sure if that's the best way. Just started with NLP a few days back and wanted to test it out by developing a small a…
> But we aren't storing any information on our servers, just showing selected sentences to the user. If this is in reference to the copyright comment, it doesn't matter -- you're still transmitting/redistributing the content, which is what matters. One way to get around this is to ship the code and have the code execute on the user's machine (i.e. what you're presumably doing with the extension).
you're still transmitting/redistributing
the content
So they provide a service that includes storing your content in it's entirety.
Has this ever been tested in court?
Re: Show HN: TLDR This – Auto summarize any article or webpage in a click
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
If I understand correctly, that would still require information to be transmitted to the server, ergo copyright infringement.
Which information? The server is then not reproducing/transmitting/redistributing the content, only indices into the content. I don't see why this would be copyright infringement.
Hacker news is not a good place to get legal advice. Best to ignore anyone offering it. Talk to a lawyer for legal advice.