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.
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.
"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."
Cool project. I too did something similar , built a HN client app for iPhone
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/h-for-hackernews/id6744145932
Building an HN reader feels like the Hello World for hackers. Still waiting for HN in BF running in the Doom HUD.
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.
OK, why not RSS reader?
Because I can customize a lot of functions related to Hacker News which usual RSS reader cannot
Yes, this is obvious. But why don't you offer YOUR script not for a general RSS feed?
That could be another tool :p
The second Github link is broken
> https://github.com/yourusername/hacker_news_reader
Link is dead
AI artifact?
The repo is https://github.com/haojiang99/hacker_news_reader
What I thought yeah. It’s LLM generated shit all the down.
Please use the thread title link
sounds like a good idea & a lot of people who would need this
Thank you. I will work to make it available to more people and make this system more powerful and extremely fast.
Every forum system tries to replicate the user-empowering features of Usenet with slrn, and usually falls short.
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.
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.
Perhaps you could teach the LLM to perform the task of enjoying the articles for you too?
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