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Re: A Readable Techcrunch Feed

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Post by hmontazeri » Mon, May 08, 2023, 1:26 PM UTC

bobsoap wrote: post #6

hmontazeri wrote: post #2

When I first started using TechCrunch, I found myself overwhelmed with the cluttered and overloaded user interface, which made it difficult to quickly find the information I was looking for. That's why I decided to create "A Readable TechCrunch Feed," a simplified version of TechCrunch that focuses on delivering the most important news and updates in a clean and easy-to-read format. As I developed the tool, I found m…

This looks like a nice project, but you lose a lot of credibility by having ChatGPT write your comment. This kind of post instantly repels any desire to seriously interact with you in any meaningful way (at least in me). If English is not your first language, I'd simply say so and then run your own text through deepl.com or something if you think you have to. If your grammar is lacking, use whatever tool for that on…

Thanks for the reply. You're right, it is written with ChatGPT as you already mentioned ENG isn't my first language. Basically just lazy TBH.

Re: A Readable Techcrunch Feed

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Post by hmontazeri » Mon, May 08, 2023, 1:28 PM UTC

marc wrote: post #13

I love that you wrote it using Cloudflare workers and just kept the default URL. Not everything needs to be a branded product with a custom domain, logo, etc.

Yeah, I used hono.dev to write it. So much fun! took me an hour or so...

Re: A Readable Techcrunch Feed

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Post by hmontazeri » Mon, May 08, 2023, 1:28 PM UTC

gumby wrote: post #8

RSS feed?

yes plus html parsing the content page

Re: A Readable Techcrunch Feed

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Post by hmontazeri » Mon, May 08, 2023, 1:34 PM UTC

amadeuspagel wrote: post #4

It would be even more readdable if it was just one column.

It is single column on small screens like phone

Re: A Readable Techcrunch Feed

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Post by hmontazeri » Mon, May 08, 2023, 1:48 PM UTC

jmsflknr wrote: post #11

hmontazeri wrote: post #2

When I first started using TechCrunch, I found myself overwhelmed with the cluttered and overloaded user interface, which made it difficult to quickly find the information I was looking for. That's why I decided to create "A Readable TechCrunch Feed," a simplified version of TechCrunch that focuses on delivering the most important news and updates in a clean and easy-to-read format. As I developed the tool, I found m…

Yes, who cares about the ad-dollars that TechCrunch relies on to survive, right? What a great innovation. Do you also have a workaround to use UPS without any charges? How about avoiding a way to pay utility bills?

I have no problems with news sites using ads to make bucks, but the overloaded design makes it hard for me to get what the site is actually about, news!

Re: A Readable Techcrunch Feed

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Post by rchaud » Mon, May 08, 2023, 1:48 PM UTC

kervantas wrote: post #20

jmsflknr wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, who cares about the ad-dollars that TechCrunch relies on to survive, right? What a great innovation. Do you also have a workaround to use UPS without any charges? How about avoiding a way to pay utility bills?

I can totally understand the OP's frustration with TechCrunch's website, and with cluttered, bloated, obfuscated websites in general which only aim to maximize the time the user spends there by confusing the fuck out of them. This is why I read sites like The Economist (finite number of articles, released weekly) and RSS feeds. So tired of the attention economy.

Every website has a finite # of articles, provided you visit them a finite number of times.

Re: A Readable Techcrunch Feed

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Post by rjh29 » Mon, May 08, 2023, 1:49 PM UTC

tnzk wrote: post #9

bobsoap wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This looks like a nice project, but you lose a lot of credibility by having ChatGPT write your comment. This kind of post instantly repels any desire to seriously interact with you in any meaningful way (at least in me). If English is not your first language, I'd simply say so and then run your own text through deepl.com or something if you think you have to. If your grammar is lacking, use whatever tool for that on…

You mean the parent is written by ChatGPT? How did you know that? I'm an ESL speaker and feel nothing wrong with the parent (beside being a bit too dense). Curious how natives or more fluent speakers would feel out of it.

There's a complete lack of slang, the sentences are verbose, generally use more difficult and formal words (ChatGPT would say 'vocabulary' here), and the final "Overall," reads like a student essay rather than a comment. I agree with other posters about the information/word density being low.

Re: A Readable Techcrunch Feed

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Post by rs999gti » Mon, May 08, 2023, 1:56 PM UTC

rjh29 wrote: post #27

tnzk wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean the parent is written by ChatGPT? How did you know that? I'm an ESL speaker and feel nothing wrong with the parent (beside being a bit too dense). Curious how natives or more fluent speakers would feel out of it.

There's a complete lack of slang, the sentences are verbose, generally use more difficult and formal words (ChatGPT would say 'vocabulary' here), and the final "Overall," reads like a student essay rather than a comment. I agree with other posters about the information/word density being low.

> This looks like a nice project, but you lose a lot of credibility by having ChatGPT write your comment.

> There's a complete lack of slang

You're like a modern day Blade Runner,

"Holden : The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.

Leon : [angry at the suggestion] What do you mean, I'm not helping?"

Re: A Readable Techcrunch Feed

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Post by croisillon » Mon, May 08, 2023, 2:22 PM UTC

jmsflknr wrote: post #11

hmontazeri wrote: post #2

When I first started using TechCrunch, I found myself overwhelmed with the cluttered and overloaded user interface, which made it difficult to quickly find the information I was looking for. That's why I decided to create "A Readable TechCrunch Feed," a simplified version of TechCrunch that focuses on delivering the most important news and updates in a clean and easy-to-read format. As I developed the tool, I found m…

Yes, who cares about the ad-dollars that TechCrunch relies on to survive, right? What a great innovation. Do you also have a workaround to use UPS without any charges? How about avoiding a way to pay utility bills?

yeah, who gonna pay for the horse carriages with all those automobile inventions?

Re: A Readable Techcrunch Feed

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Post by marc » Mon, May 08, 2023, 2:32 PM UTC

hackernewds wrote: post #16

marc wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When you use ChatGPT a lot you start to recognize certain patterns. In this case, there’s 3 paragraphs of text, but there isn’t 3 paragraphs worth of information. So what likely happened is that the OP provided limited context to the AI and asked it to write a 3-paragraph post based on it which it happily obliged to. It feels like GPT-3.5. I think GPT-4 generally does a better job at these types of texts.

Now that you said it, I also recognize the pattern. But in a post-chatGPT world is there any solid source of truth that it was - what if OP denies it (which could realistically be true)?

Ultimately I don't think it matters whether it was written by ChatGPT or not.

If it conveys the message the OP is trying to communicate in a readable way, that's all that matters.

I think the reason the person above me pointed out it seemed like ChatGPT (as did I), is to inform the OP that it's quite transparent and they shouldn't just take whatever ChatGPT spits out.

Of course it's possible that we're wrong and it was manually written. In that case it's useful to realize we live in a post-ChatGPT world and if something _looks_ AI-generated, that by itself is (unfortunately?) a bad attribute now.