I think the concept is great, I'd love something like this even more broadly, sort of a daily "customizable" newspaper. The issue I see is that it's a bit... bland? Obviously you're doing this with AI and there's no other way to do it, but one of the main reasons why something like HN has stayed relevant for this long is its variety: front page stories often have remarkable diversity, not only in topics and content, but also in tone and writing style. I feel a digest like this one flattens everything more than I'd like.
> Obviously you're doing this with AI and there's no other way to do it
What do you mean "no other way to do it"? Traditionally these sort of things been curated, by humans who read and make judgements, how is that not another way to do it? Probably would solve the whole "bit... bland?" problem to, given the right curator.
I agree that this is likely to flatten out the depth of comments I come here for. It's also hard to get a brief that is tailored to the subset of posts you might actually be interested in.
The approach I tried was to rely mainly on what comments I've upvoted, have the AI look at those comments and gather context from the article/link and the parent comment chain, then give me a "here's what you learned yesterday" brief.
I had plans to add some memory to mention related things from recent weeks. Relying mainly on being able to visually code all this with n8n, and never quite got it working.
? This has been done before, plus apps like Harmonic support Best by X hrs. Do people love re-inventing the wheel before googling "drive car from A to B"?
I can't see the page at the moment (getting the No digest yet).
I made a thing[0] that splits stories by day without mixing old popular with new stories. That helped cut down my HN visits to a few times per day. [I had originally made it to list all stories on one page and load story links at stops in a subway/metro commute.]
What I'm finding now is that there's too much noise at the top and what I really want to see are the stories not upvoted by mainstream/populist interests--if anyone knows a solution to that, please share.
Edit: I was hosting this on Vercel free tier, and since this post made it to the front page, I've hit Vercel's quota limit. I will work on getting around this.
throwaway12pol | a day ago
qsort | a day ago
embedding-shape | a day ago
What do you mean "no other way to do it"? Traditionally these sort of things been curated, by humans who read and make judgements, how is that not another way to do it? Probably would solve the whole "bit... bland?" problem to, given the right curator.
layer8 | 22 hours ago
On the other hand, the HN front page is already the result of collective curation.
deelayman | 22 hours ago
The approach I tried was to rely mainly on what comments I've upvoted, have the AI look at those comments and gather context from the article/link and the parent comment chain, then give me a "here's what you learned yesterday" brief.
I had plans to add some memory to mention related things from recent weeks. Relying mainly on being able to visually code all this with n8n, and never quite got it working.
jacquesm | a day ago
http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/
qznc | 21 hours ago
jacquesm | 20 hours ago
tom1337 | 22 hours ago
> No digest yet. Trigger `GET /api/cron/digest`.
> GET https://hackerbrief.vercel.app/api/cron/digest
> 401 Unauthorized
hmm
Wistar | 22 hours ago
wek | 21 hours ago
Liftyee | 21 hours ago
[OP] p0u4a | 17 hours ago
latchkey | 22 hours ago
Active:
https://news.ycombinator.com/active
Highlights:
https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights
RobRivera | 21 hours ago
ramon156 | 21 hours ago
hidelooktropic | 21 hours ago
mplanchard | 21 hours ago
karmakaze | 19 hours ago
I made a thing[0] that splits stories by day without mixing old popular with new stories. That helped cut down my HN visits to a few times per day. [I had originally made it to list all stories on one page and load story links at stops in a subway/metro commute.]
What I'm finding now is that there's too much noise at the top and what I really want to see are the stories not upvoted by mainstream/populist interests--if anyone knows a solution to that, please share.
[0] https://hackerer.news/
[OP] p0u4a | 15 hours ago
tonymet | 14 hours ago
[OP] p0u4a | 12 hours ago