Let ChatGPT Summarize Hacker News for You

中文版

Hacker News Summary leverages AI technology to extract summaries and illustrations from Hacker News articles, providing a seamless news scanning experience.

Summaries are primarily generated by ChatGPT gpt-3.5-turbo model, and fallback to local GoogleT5 model when ChatGPT is not available.

Features

• Clear and easily understandable summaries generated by our advanced AI assistant
• Relevant illustrations make articles easily scannable and visually engaging
• Common video sites, PDFs, and GitHub gists are seamlessly embedded
• Flexibility to sort articles based on their points, comment count, or publication time
• Filter the topN articles based on their points.
• RSS feeds fully supported (#14, #19)
• Local translation (Chinese)

Talk is cheap, show me the screenshot!

Emoji explained:

• ❤️: point - upvotes received from the Hacker News community
• 👤: user - Hacker News user who submitted this post
• 🕘: submission time - a human-readable time indicating when the post was submitted
• 💬: comment count - comments posted by the community, click to visit this comment page
• 🔗: source of the news - where the news originated
• 📰: summary model - which model is used to generate the summary, options are OpenAI, GoogleT5 and Prefix

How it works

Hacker News Summary is a static site hosted on GitHub Pages. It performs the following periodic actions:

1. Parsing the Hacker News page to obtain a list of news articles
2. Extracting the main content from each news article using a score algorithm
3. Finding the most suitable illustration for each article and making a local copy
4. Generating summaries of the article's content using OpenAI API or invoking a local model as a fallback when the API is unavailable
5. Rendering a template that incorporates the illustrations and summaries, and deploying it to GitHub Pages

Localization

Translation is also performed by ChatGPT, with a single extra step in the prompt. Currently supported languages:

• 中文翻译

TODO

• A better way to scrap websites (maybe PhantomJS & Selenium)
• Also summarize comments (see discussions on Hacker News)
• Switch to Hacker News API
• A more beautiful home page (maybe in HTML9)
• Discover an alternative local models for generating summaries
• Sort articles by points/comments/time
• Filter topN articles by points
• RSS
• Deploy on github pages
• Have a good sleep !important