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Re: Hacker News front page as a site

#61
"Hacker News front page as a site

The Front Page highlights a diverse set of tech and science stories"

It is interesting the summary it generated for itself wasn't able to describe itself as a Hacker News content view. It missed the big picture meta context.

Re: Hacker News front page as a site

#62

The inception effect here is hilarious. Watching this get its own front page while the subtitle lags behind with the previous top posts is weirdly funny.

I can’t see this post on the news frontpage though

Screenshot - https://i.ibb.co/zTTK1hQR/IMG-6526.jpg

Re: Hacker News front page as a site

#63
post #49

I thought it already had a site?

It doesn’t have a website, it has a motherfucking website. And it’s fucking perfect.

It’s exceptional. Here in camp “userscripts can offer some improvements”, would necessarily not say perfect, but definitely amazing how it’s continuing to stand the test of time.

Re: Hacker News front page as a site

#64
post #29
post #28

Why is the text one long paragraph? Makes it very hard to read?

Because I'm telling the AI "summarize it to one paragraph".

w/o instruction to avoid the same generic “this is an article about” preambles (or non-SotA model)

Not that summaries are reliable anyway. Big picture, maybe, but poor importance classification (bad at extracting key points). Understandable for this use case but unwilling to read potentially false summaries given risk I go around remembering them (never having read the original piece).

Re: Hacker News front page as a site

#66
post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because I'm telling the AI "summarize it to one paragraph".

Could you explain in more detail how this works? Would it break for paywalled articles that HN links to? (Usually someone posts a workaround archive link in the comments, but your AI probably doesn’t account for that, right?) I’m writing something similar to Moltbook for HN where AIs browse HN’s front page and leave comments. But I wasn’t sure whether AIs could reliably browse an arbitrary website. (Paywalls would br…

The solutions to this don’t seem to be great for the web or polite to use. An industry exists to cheaply do it, but not very ethical and surely a massive ToS violator.

Re: Hacker News front page as a site

#68
This is gorgeous. Makes me feel like I'm picking up an old news sheet. Forces me to read slowly from which I then enjoy the reading much more it's like difference of drinking a fine wine from a glass instead of a straw in the wine bottle.

Kudos to the author.

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