HackYourNews – AI summaries of the top HN stories
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…
HackYourNews – AI summaries of the top HN stories launched on September 7, 2023 with 335 votes, #90 of 4,228 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
In plain words
HackYourNews uses AI to summarize top Hacker News stories and their comment sections, helping readers quickly identify which posts merit attention. The tool leverages GPT-3.5-turbo to generate summaries of both articles and discussions, caching article summaries while refreshing comment summaries when discussion activity changes significantly. It offers both a desktop and streamlined mobile interface designed for easy browsing across devices.
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Average HYN impact 6.9/10 from 2870 HN comments. Click any row to expand the full brief. TypeSafe, founded by former OpenAI researcher Diogo Almeida, released Jev in early access as its first System One Model. Jev accepts unstructured text or structured state and returns predefined typed decisions, probabilities, and confidence scores rather than generated text. The company says its parallel sampling and Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions enable 70–500 ms responses and pricing of $0.042 per million input tokens, with no output-token charge. TypeSafe positions Jev for semantic branching in software workflows, where constrained outputs can reduce parsing failures, latency, and…from hackyournews.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
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…
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TL;DR2025 · tl-dr.tv · ▲199I 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 --…
- HCHackyournews.com v22025 · ▲27
A year and a half after I published https://HackYourNews.com, I've rewritten it to be neater and added support for more news sources. HackYourNews.com v1 had a great response on HN [1] and consistently sees ~2k weekly unique visitors. There were many long-standing requests that I wanted to fulfill (thanks for your patience!): a proper dark mode, correct rendering on mobile devices, and more cogent summaries. This rewrite is the result. gpt-4o-mini reduces the cost of summarization to an absurd degree, so it's now sustainable to keep this free service going! Someday, I hope to use…
Hacker News Summary – Let ChatGPT Summarize Hacker News for You2023 · hackernews.betacat.io · ▲99Hacker News Summary leverages AI technology to extract summaries and illustrations from Hacker News posts, providing a seamless news scanning experience.
Open Source Bot That Summarizes Top Hacker News Stories Using GPT-32022 · github.com · ▲71HN Summary is an open source bot which sumarizes top stories on Hacker News and publishes the summaries to a Telegram channel. Whenever a new story appears on the Hacker News API /topstories.json endpoint, this bot summarizes it (currently using OpenAI GPT-3 text-davinci-002) and sends the story title, summary, and url to the hn_summary channel on Telegram. The purpose of this project is to help build intuition on the capabilities of the current generation of large language models while making a broader swath of top Hacker News content more easily accessible. It could also serve as a…
I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscriptJul 2026 · github.com · ▲433HN is great for the links people share, but a big part of the value I get comes from reading the discussion around them. I realized I was always opening the article in one tab and the comments in another, constantly switching back and forth. I figured there was probably a simpler way, so I threw together this userscript to merge the two. 1. Clicking a link from Hacker News opens the article with a side panel containing the discussion. It doesn't require your credentials, is resizable, and is easy to tweak if you want to customize it. 2. If you land on an article that has previously been…
- RHRealtime Hacker News Summarization Using Machine Learning2017 · hn10.org · ▲138
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