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Show HN: Hackerbrief – Top posts on Hacker News summarized daily
- throwaway12pol 6mo agoNice! Would be great to also get a summary of the comments.
- unkeen 6mo ago"Hackerbrief" means "hacker letter" in German.
- vidarh 6mo ago"brief" also has a similar meaning in English, in (several) alternative meanings of "brief" to mean a precis, summary, position paper of various kinds. Both are derived from latin breve/brevis - "short". You'll find variants with one or other of those meanings all derived from latin in a number of other languages too, e.g. "brev" in Norwegian (letter).
- imadch 6mo agoI think it will be great if we have a mobile app with push notification about most important news ...
- amelius 6mo agoA brief (one short paragraph) summary in HN would be nice and it would prevent kneejerk reactions on the title.
- cyrusmg 6mo agoNice - that looks useful. Would it be possible to: - do "horizontal" swiping gesture to go to next/previous summarized article? Kind of like instagram stories - keep the link to original article as I scroll through the summary so I can quickly navigate to full article if the summary is interesting?
- qsort 6mo agoI think the concept is great, I'd love something like this even more broadly, sort of a daily "customizable" newspaper. The issue I see is that it's a bit... bland? Obviously you're doing this with AI and there's no other way to do it, but one of the main reasons why something like HN has stayed relevant for this long is its variety: front page stories often have remarkable diversity, not only in topics and content, but also in tone and writing style. I feel a digest like this one flattens everything more than I'd like.
- p0u4a 6mo agoI've been thinking about this for a while too. Probably what I will do is create embeddings of the frontpage results and then let users pick 3-5 topics that they would like to see. Then summarize the top 10 for those topics.
- celltalk 6mo agoBasically, https://duobook.co https://duobook.co :)
- 0907 6mo agoSomething I've been tinkering on for the last few weeks is absent.dev[1], was working towards getting the guts to share this on HN but there's a few things I want to polish first. This is the MVP, but it will essentially be moving towards what you're suggesting, much more customisable news aggregation and more importantly, where you consume it. Feed agnostic, channel agnostic, in the form(s) you want (longform, shortform, summary, tl;dr etc). You can check the clustering logic on the digest[2]. 1. https://absent.dev/ https://absent.dev/ 2. https://absent.dev/episode/ABS-0014/clusters https://absent.dev/episode/ABS-0014/clusters
- embedding-shape 6mo ago> Obviously you're doing this with AI and there's no other way to do it What do you mean "no other way to do it"? Traditionally these sort of things been curated, by humans who read and make judgements, how is that not another way to do it? Probably would solve the whole "bit... bland?" problem to, given the right curator.
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- codetiger 6mo agoConcept looks good. Just needs some more polishing like Newspaper theme, Endless swiping, HN like dark/light theme etc on mobile app.
- rubycollect4812 6mo agoLooks interesting. At the end of the newest post there is a npm update alert. That should be an easy fix though :)
- logicallee 6mo agolooks great. please add email signup, I'd like to receive this as a daily newsletter.
- xnorswap 6mo agoI didn't recognise the top story ( about cannaboids ) at all. I then went to "past" and nothing from yesterday. I then realised this site is based off the current front-page. So I forced the "past" page to be today, and it's the third result: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2026-03-16 https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2026-03-16 But it's not on my actual front-page. So this must have been done at a very brief window when this story was top, which even hnrankings didn't capture: https://hnrankings.info/47393619/ https://hnrankings.info/47393619/ I think this would be better if powered by https://news.ycombinator.com/front https://news.ycombinator.com/front , which is relatively stable after a day. Otherwise you've ended up with a brief snapshot, and not the top posts of the day. It also seems odd to have a "summary of 16/03" produced while that day has barely begun in the US timezone, so looking retrospectively at the previous day would make this better.
- p0u4a 6mo agoHmm, yeah I suppose you're right. I'm currently using the algolia api https://hn.algolia.com/ https://hn.algolia.com/ Will look into tightening this up
- SilentEditor 6mo ago[flagged]
- jacquesm 6mo agohttps://www.hndigest.com/ https://www.hndigest.com/ http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/
- yuppiepuppie 6mo agoWe dont do "top-posts" but we do most Game posts in case you are insterested :) https://hnarcade.com https://hnarcade.com
- genie3io 6mo ago[dead]
- CrzyLngPwd 6mo ago"I am sorry, but I cannot provide a summary. The provided content is empty." This was for the bigfoot story: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-new-bigfoot-documentary-helps-explain-our-conspiracy-minded-era/ar-AA1Yv6px https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-new-bigfoot-documentary-... I wonder why.
- Yash16 6mo ago[dead]
- tom1337 6mo ago> Hackerbrief > No digest yet. Trigger `GET /api/cron/digest`. > GET https://hackerbrief.vercel.app/api/cron/digest https://hackerbrief.vercel.app/api/cron/digest > 401 Unauthorized hmm
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- latchkey 6mo agoHN already has these features... Active: https://news.ycombinator.com/active https://news.ycombinator.com/active Highlights: https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights
- RobRivera 6mo agoAm I being fair when I immediately categorize anything as a summary as a data dump from an AI?
- ramon156 6mo ago? This has been done before, plus apps like Harmonic support Best by X hrs. Do people love re-inventing the wheel before googling "drive car from A to B"?
- hidelooktropic 6mo agoOh relax. Let people make things. It's okay to have more than one take on an idea.
- mplanchard 6mo agoMan, I miss n-gate more than ever
- karmakaze 6mo agoI can't see the page at the moment (getting the No digest yet). I made a thing[0] that splits stories by day without mixing old popular with new stories. That helped cut down my HN visits to a few times per day. [I had originally made it to list all stories on one page and load story links at stops in a subway/metro commute.] What I'm finding now is that there's too much noise at the top and what I really want to see are the stories not upvoted by mainstream/populist interests--if anyone knows a solution to that, please share. [0] https://hackerer.news/ https://hackerer.news/
- p0u4a 6mo agoEdit: I was hosting this on Vercel free tier, and since this post made it to the front page, I've hit Vercel's quota limit. I will work on getting around this.
- tonymet 6mo agohow about static hosting?
- KnowFun 6mo ago[flagged]
- p0u4a 6mo agoAaaand we’re back
- nikolas_sapa 6mo agowhy not someone use an n8n automation where it automatically fetches its and get telegram message? just asking so I can help you develop the idea
- CrewHaus 6mo ago[flagged]