Perfect. Now I finally don't have to click the links
I hope you'll click into the more interesting ones, though!
Show HN: HackYourNews – AI summaries of the top HN stories
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#62This works surprisingly well! I would probably just switch to using it instead of the native HN interface if it had the other article action buttons. Mainly I want to “hide” the summaries that I’ve already seen.
Thank you! I wonder if this can be done with purely client-side storage, or if I have to implement user accounts and sessions.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for pointing this out. Will correct this shortly!
I think this will always be a problem for links that are aggregators of other articles, since the body of the destination page is effectively a mix of summaries. For now, I've overridden the summary of the comments as the summary of the article.
Could you constrain the LLM by asking for a “summary of the sections regarding and ignore other sections” or something similar ?
Re: Show HN: HackYourNews – AI summaries of the top HN stories
#64As can be expected, we find that AI consistently chokes on lisp programs. Here is the description for number 8, John McCarthy's lisp program with a bunch of numerical conversion information in it: > This file contains a collection of numerical facts and units conversions, as well as astronomical facts related to moving Mars to a more temperate location ... The content is not particularly relevant to the current techn…
Whoa, that summary went off the rails. I think I found the problem and had it regenerate the summary for that article. It now reads:
> This file contains a collection of numerical facts and units conversions, as well as astronomical data related to moving Mars to a different location. The file can be loaded into Emacs and used within the editor. It provides various units of measurement and constants, such as the gravitational constant, Avogadro number, and Planck's constant. It also includes data on the masses, radii, densities, and orbital parameters of celestial bodies like Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and the Moon. The file concludes with escape velocities and velocities of these celestial bodies.
Thanks for catching this!
Re: Show HN: HackYourNews – AI summaries of the top HN stories
#65Funny to see the site itself sitting at the 3rd position right now and the AI summarizing its own page. It seems to be using content that is not shown on the page though, maybe an og:description meta tag. Otherwise it would be spiraling in an infinite loop of summarizing itself. Small comment: the "dehyped" title does not seem very useful. For most articles it is almost the same as the original title, just rephrased.…
Good catch! Yeah, summaries of summaries are quite problematic.
The prompt for dehyping was not specific enough, but that (and a related bug) has been fixed. The dehyped titles make (more) sense now and are not the same as the HN article title.
Re: Show HN: HackYourNews – AI summaries of the top HN stories
#66Do you do the scraping and open ai calls offline? Have you tried GPT4? How are the costs per month?
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#67I don't think I'd use this in its current form. Its abbreviated the article but still not enough. What I'd prefer is just a more appropriate AI generated title in as dense a sentence as possible. OP: You should play with word lengths to see how short a title/abbreviation you can achieve. I asked ChatGPT to 'summarize in as few words as possible' and I got this: Citizen Lab found a zero-click vulnerability, BLASTPASS,…
Thanks for the feedback. I think someone else also suggested allowing control over the summary verbosity. Will think of a way to provide this as an option.
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#68Reducing the max character length per line would yield a huge readability improvement :) Interesting tool!
I think the HN homepage shares this problem, have you tried the Mobile view?
It's accessible from the navbar. That should scale correctly for your device.
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#69Would prefer an AI-powered N-gate.
What is N-gate? The site n-gate.com seems to be offline.
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#70I'm not sure I would ever use this. I wouldn't use it for the same reason I cultivate my own RSS feed and pay very little attention to mainstream media and mainstream social media. I don't like the risks around outside forces shaping what news I get fed to me.
This is a valid point. There are inherent biases to any language model.
The responses may also be colored by the prompt used to summarize the information.
To address the latter, I am considering adding control over the prompt in a testable way. The former is (still) a matter of intense debate, and unlikely to be resolved soon.
I hope you're able to spot-check a few of the summaries to see if they are sufficiently unbiased, though!