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Re: Hacker News front page as a site

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Post by rickydroll »

I love the presentation. My initial impression is that it's easier to read, in no small part due to the font choice, color palette, and tabloid-style layout. I would love to have an RSS reader that presents my RSS feed in the same way.

Re: Hacker News front page as a site

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Post by stagas »

samyxp17 wrote: post #101

Pretty nice, Can you share some tech details and challenges

Thanks, technically it scrapes every 10 minutes the first 3 pages of HN and the first 3 /newest, fires up a Chrome instance with puppeteer, visits each site with a spoofed GoogleBot UserAgent to avoid paywalls, scrapes `document.body.textContent`, sends it to openrouter/free and asks to summarize. We also collect the opengraph images to show in that step. One difficulty was getting the responses to not be garbage enough but with some prompt tweaks that fixed. It runs on a small VPS with bun. Biggest challenge was setting up the deployment pipeline actually because I hadn't done it before. But now I can `git push` and it gets updated and restarts fine :)

Re: Hacker News front page as a site

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Post by stagas »

ian_j_butler wrote: post #109

Why does someone go to the effort/expense of doing summaries without adding tags? The goal is less slop and not more, and this really just hurts usability after you've already spent money that could actually help? Isn't this the whole value proposition for literally everyone or am I nuts? I don't want a summary. I will switch immediately to the first alternative that allows tags/categories/filtering.

The summaries come from openrouter/free so they cost nothing. Could probably also ask the AI to produce tags, will do some experiments! Thanks for the suggestion!

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Post by BeetleB »

dangus wrote: post #104
BeetleB wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not about the length l. The point of a paragraph is to convey one idea. Some of the paragraphs don't do that.

Because its AI slop. It’s not a designed website.

No, he admitted it's a prompt issue.

Re: Hacker News front page as a site

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Post by niutech »

m132 wrote: post #58

Love the summaries, I must say some stories I haven't considered interesting seeing them in the original HN view only caught my attention after my eyes landed on the summary. At the same time, I very much dislike the layout. Masonry-style layouts, at least to me, feel more "artsy" than practical. Multiple rows being displayed at once, with the most crucial information being chaotically all over the place instead of a…

If you love summaries on HN, check out https://hncompanion.com.
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