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Skimthat summarizes popular articles from Hacker News in plain language. It's designed for people who want to quickly understand trending tech and startup discussions without reading full pieces. The tool takes lengthy HN posts and distills them into concise overviews, helping busy readers stay informed on community-discussed topics.

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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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  Open Source Bot That Summarizes Top Hacker News Stories Using GPT-32022 · github.com · ▲71

  HN 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…

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  HN Trends - like Google Trends, but for Hacker News2011 · hntrends.jerodsanto.net · ▲355
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  Your personal Hacker News reader - Skim HN2013 · skimhn.com · ▲43
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  Hazumi News 3.02025 · apps.apple.com · ▲99

  Alerts, AI summaries, and easy search for Hacker News

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  Hacker News Summary – Let ChatGPT Summarize Hacker News for You2023 · hackernews.betacat.io · ▲99

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

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  SimCity, but with Permits▲908

  A free city-building game in your browser. You are the mayor. You know what the city needs. Now get it past the zoning board, the neighbors, the appeals court and the next election.

  Life & fun · 1d ago · permit.petercai.com

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  I've been paying for a rural Tanzanian's education for 10 years▲778

  Life & fun · 14d ago · tanzaniaeducationproject.org

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  Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app▲728

  Turn a phone, tablet or TV into a sign. Type a message and it fills the screen: welcome signs, timers, Wi-Fi passwords and more. No app, no account, free.

  Life & fun · 14d ago · bigwords.page

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  Guitoro, a virtual guitar you strum with your keyboard▲573

  Play a free virtual guitar online with your keyboard or by touch. Slow songs down and see every chord, string and strum. Acoustic, classic, electric and bass.

  Life & fun · 8d ago · guitoro.com

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  See *almost* any carriers phone settings▲432

  Carrier settings from iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy firmware, decoded and compared: APNs, VoLTE, 5G and Wi-Fi Calling per carrier, and what each build changed.

  Life & fun · 12d ago · carrierexplode.com

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  The whole Solar System and every tracked satellite, live in the browser▲407

  Life & fun · 22d ago · space.bl2.net

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  IMDb Top 250 available on Netflix Instant▲195

  Life & fun · 2011 · paulisageek.com

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  New platform for finding work - $2000 project minimum▲195

  Code Your Idea is a top-rated web and mobile app development agency in Balangir, India. We build modern websites and apps for startups and businesses across India. Get custom web development, mobile app development, and digital solutions.

  Dev tools · 2011 · codeyouridea.com

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  Machine learning cheat sheet▲166

  AI · 2011 · eferm.com

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  I wrote a .NET to JS compiler. Here's an XNA demo compiled to JS.▲103

  Life & fun · 2011 · hildr.luminance.org

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  Fitocracy, an RPG for fitness▲102

  My cofounder and I have been working on a site called Fitocracy (www.fitocracy.com), which is a social game for fitness. The idea was very much inspired by our experiences growing up as nerds playing video games, later on discovering weightlifting, and drawing the parallel between working out and "leveling yourself up." XKCD has a pretty well known comic to this effect: http://xkcd.com/189/. We find that the metaphor of workout out as leveling up in a video game resonates with quite a few people, so Fitocracy is an attempt to bring that to life. On Fitocracy, tracking your workouts earns you…

  Life & fun · 2011 · xkcd.com

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  This weird bug is probably present in your Nginx configuration.▲100

  Life & fun · 2011 · keen.posterous.com