polyrabbit/hacker-news-digest
:newspaper: Let ChatGPT Summarize Hacker News for You
What it solves
It simplifies the process of keeping up with Hacker News by automatically extracting the main content of articles and generating concise, AI-powered summaries and illustrations, making the news feed more scannable and visually engaging.
How it works
The project operates as a static site hosted on GitHub Pages that periodically performs these steps:
- Parses the Hacker News page for a list of articles.
- Extracts the main content of each article using a scoring algorithm.
- Identifies and saves a suitable illustration for each article.
- Uses the OpenAI API (with a local Qwen model as a fallback) to generate summaries and translations.
- Renders these summaries and images into a template and deploys the final site.
Who it’s for
Users who want a streamlined way to scan Hacker News articles without reading every full piece of content.
Highlights
- AI-generated summaries and illustrations for faster scanning.
- Support for embedding common video sites, PDFs, and GitHub gists.
- Ability to sort articles by points, comment count, or publication time.
- RSS feed support.
- Local translation capabilities, specifically for Chinese.
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