TL;DR
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 --…
TL;DR launched on May 27, 2025 with 199 votes, #170 of 7,905 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
What it does
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“The ability to quickly clip, save, edit and manage my clips on the TL:DR Dashboard has been insanely helpful for my productivity. "A solution to a problem streamers of all sizes have, ai clips important moments when you’re in the zone and the satisfying verbal activation “TL;DR CLIP THAT!” Catches the hype moments you want to relive.” “TL;DR has made life so much easier. Letting my viewers just scroll down click a button and be brought up to speed is 10/10 would recommend.” "TL;DR is the like the viewer that never sleeps. Always there to clip the most epic moments!” Every hour you stream creates dozens of potential viral moments. But who has time to find them, edit them, and post them…from tl-dr.tv
In the maker’s words, at launch
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…
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