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Re: Show HN: HackYourNews – AI summaries of the top HN stories

#81
Loved the concept OP. Thanks for building this. It will save me quite some time and data dump scrolling through the best of HN. I can now easily glance over the summaries and figure out which article is worth a read or just get the jist of it by the summary.

Bookmarked and looking forward to using it.

Re: Show HN: HackYourNews – AI summaries of the top HN stories

#82

Do you do the scraping and open ai calls offline? Have you tried GPT4? How are the costs per month?

Yep, everything's done offline. On-demand summaries were too slow and uncontrolled. It's still day zero, so monthly cost is impossible to forecast.

In my trials, GPT4 was fantastic at this, but the pricing is 20x GPT3.5!

Re: Show HN: HackYourNews – AI summaries of the top HN stories

#83
Could you do one that summarizes to an title (or does it exist)? And would that be better, i.e. accurate being more useful than being sensational? Lately I've been clicking on stories much less than historically--not sure the reason(s).

It could be used in alternative HN front-ends--I would try it for https://hackerer.news as a default option.

Re: Show HN: HackYourNews – AI summaries of the top HN stories

#84

Could you do one that summarizes to an title (or does it exist)? And would that be better, i.e. accurate being more useful than being sensational? Lately I've been clicking on stories much less than historically--not sure the reason(s). It could be used in alternative HN front-ends--I would try it for https://hackerer.news as a default option.

Thanks for checking it out. Does the "dehyped title" under the metadata line seem like what you're looking for?

Re: Show HN: HackYourNews – AI summaries of the top HN stories

#86
post #84

Could you do one that summarizes to an title (or does it exist)? And would that be better, i.e. accurate being more useful than being sensational? Lately I've been clicking on stories much less than historically--not sure the reason(s). It could be used in alternative HN front-ends--I would try it for https://hackerer.news as a default option.

Thanks for checking it out. Does the "dehyped title" under the metadata line seem like what you're looking for?

Yes, nice! I didn't notice it before, my eyes jumped directly to summary/comments. No knock on the styling--it's great--I'm just reading in low light. In most cases the dehyped is as good or better. The worst post titles are short ones that assume familiarity with the content.

One thing that could make the comment summary better is if the prompt could be along the lines of "what do the comments add to the article" to avoid duplication of the summary.

Re: Show HN: HackYourNews – AI summaries of the top HN stories

#87

Loved the concept OP. Thanks for building this. It will save me quite some time and data dump scrolling through the best of HN. I can now easily glance over the summaries and figure out which article is worth a read or just get the jist of it by the summary. Bookmarked and looking forward to using it.

Thank you for your kind words of encouragement!

Re: Show HN: HackYourNews – AI summaries of the top HN stories

#88
The summaries and comments need spacing/line breaks. I think right now the original HN site is still way better. Maybe have it produce bullet points or explicitly ask for line breaks in the relevant places. It's just not pleasant to read unbroken walls of text once they're more than about 1-2 sentences (yours appear to be at least 3+).
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