DistilHN

What it does

An RSS feed and webpage showing the top stories on Hacker News with an Ai-generated summary to make it easy to skim through and find interesting stories

Chuck Greenman reports two GitHub UI issues: (1) PR counts in the repository tab overcount, often after merges, though the correct number is visible on the page; (2) while setting up Sentry, navigating to the project on the second page of org memberships is hampered by Chrome’s pop-up address-bar restriction, requiring a JavaScript-based workaround. He seeks insight and notes his long GitHub use and social handles. Evan Hahn observes a social trend where programmers prefer map and filter over reduce. Reduce is seen as harder to read, less familiar, potentially less efficient, and less elegant in languages like JavaScript, Python, and Swift. In Clojure, he didn’t encounter the issue. He…from distilhn.com

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  Distilhn.com – Front-Page Articles Summarized with Machine Learning2022 · distilhn.com · ▲34

  Hey HN, I've built a little website to show news articles with a summary so that I don't have to RTFA if I just want a rough sense of what it covers :) I also share the summaries in an RSS feed for those who'd prefer to use their own reader. Let me know what you think!

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  HackYourNews – AI summaries of the top HN stories2023 · hackyournews.com · ▲335

  Hey there HN! I wanted to share a pet project of mine. I built HackYourNews [1] to scratch a personal itch: Knowing which stories to focus on while browsing aimlessly (though there is a certain joy in that, as well!) HackYourNews uses OpenAI's gpt-3.5-turbo to summarize the destination article as well as the comments section. Summarization of the article is always cached, while summaries of the comments are regenerated if the comments count is >10% (or >10 comments) different. While I styled the homepage to welcome HNers, my preferred view is the Mobile view, accessed from the navbar. This…

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  Hacker News with AI-generated summaries2025 · hn-summaries.vercel.app · ▲19

  I built this clone of Hacker News to get a quick summary of articles before deciding to read them. Summaries are cached in localStorage. Not useful for links to social media sites.

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  TL;DR2025 · tl-dr.tv · ▲199

  I love Hacker News but I rarely have time to read full articles / comments, so I built a simple site to summarize the top posts & comments to make it easier to get a big picture. A few implementation details: - It pulls the top stories from the HN Firebase API (`/v0/topstories`) - Filters stories with >200 points - Uses Claude Sonnet for post + comment summaries - Tries to capture the sentiment of the comments (still working on improving this) - Refreshes both posts + summaries hourly It has already helped me I hope it helps you! Please let me know if you have any feedback --…

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  Realtime Hacker News Summarization Using Machine Learning2017 · hn10.org · ▲138
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  Discover Wikipedia articles popular on Hacker NewsJun 2026 · orangecrumbs.com · ▲140

  Independent Hacker News tools and stories from OrangeCrumbs.

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