Building an HN reader feels like the Hello World for hackers. Still waiting for HN in BF running in the Doom HUD.
coolwulf 264 days ago [-]
Pretty much. That is why this was a tiny personal project I did. The key for me is to be a le to track article and comments on HN for myself. I found it useful and that's why I decided to open source and make it available for everyone else.
Beijinger 264 days ago [-]
OK, why not RSS reader?
coolwulf 264 days ago [-]
Because I can customize a lot of functions related to Hacker News which usual RSS reader cannot
Beijinger 263 days ago [-]
Yes, this is obvious. But why don't you offer YOUR script not for a general RSS feed?
What I thought yeah. It’s LLM generated shit all the down.
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coolwulf 264 days ago [-]
Please use the thread title link
shahakshat609 264 days ago [-]
sounds like a good idea & a lot of people who would need this
coolwulf 264 days ago [-]
Thank you. I will work to make it available to more people and make this system more powerful and extremely fast.
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dsr_ 264 days ago [-]
Every forum system tries to replicate the user-empowering features of Usenet with slrn, and usually falls short.
coolwulf 264 days ago [-]
Well I'm implementing a LLM based auto summary for each article and other features which focus on usability / readability / tracking for HN users. And this is more specialized and cannot be achieved by other tools.
dsr_ 264 days ago [-]
Hrm. You should pivot to making an Electric Monk.
"The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe."
- Douglas Adams.
flave 263 days ago [-]
Perhaps you could teach the LLM to perform the task of enjoying the articles for you too?
coolwulf 264 days ago [-]
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https://apps.apple.com/us/app/h-for-hackernews/id6744145932
Link is dead
The repo is https://github.com/haojiang99/hacker_news_reader
"The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe."
- Douglas Adams.