Show HN: Hacker News with Tags

Hi, I’m Kirubakaran. I’m building histre - a knowledge tool for individuals and teams.

One of the features of histre is to auto-organize your knowledge. I thought that a fun way to demo that could be to apply that to the Hacker News front page.

This page mirrors HN with tags automatically applied: https://histre.com/hn/

You can filter by or exclude multiple tags. For example, if you’re tired of posts related to ai and politics, this will remove them https://histre.com/hn/?tags=+all-ai-politics

The tags for the posts are picked by gpt-3.5

You can get these tags inside Hacker News itself with these open-source browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox:

Source: https://gitlab.com/histre/hn-tags

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-tags/i...

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hacker-news-t...

People use https://histre.com/ to keep track of all kinds of web research, make highlights, collaborate with their teams, generate documentation from chat conversations, automatically extract information from pages and create comparison tables, etc. I’m excited to be building a comprehensive knowledge tool.

If you can play with it and share your thoughts, I’d really appreciate it.

Show HN: Hacker News with Tags
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I extract the title, headings (h1,h2,h3), and some meta data from the page content and send that along with the prompt to gpt-3.5 to pick the relevant tags from a set of tags.

I extracted tags from here https://lobste.rs/tags and expanded on that just from having spent a lot of time on HN

Yes, I played around with sending first n chars from the web page text etc, but found that sending headings is to pick the tags.

I extracted the list from here as the starting point: https://lobste.rs/tags I spend a lot of time on HN haha, so I was able to expand on that list and I think the current list is pretty comprehensive. I can share the full list if you're interested.

Thank you! I do plan to extend this, if people are interested.

GPT-3.5 is pretty cheap and I'm able to keep the number of tokens small. https://histre.com/ has other paid features that users might find useful, so it might work out as a freemium offering.