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596 points yunusabd | 1 comments | 20 Oct 24 07:10 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

I feel like it was inevitable, with the recent buzz around NotebookLM. I'm just surprised that it hasn't been done yet.
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andai ◴[20 Oct 24 22:32 UTC] No.41899047[source]▶
Brilliant idea. I think this has real value as well: as I get older, I find that I have less energy for reading, but I also notice I often miss really cool stuff that was briefly on the front of HN.

I like that it summarizes the comments too. There are often real gems buried in there. (I assume you're only taking a few top ones?)

I think a great improvement could be made with personalization. Most of what's on the front page isn't personally relevant to me, and there's a lot of cool stuff on the new submissions page that never catches on. So it would be nice if a system could learn what kind of stories I personally respond to, and show me (a summary of?) those -- even if they aren't currently trending.

Last.fm came out 20 years ago (proving you don't even need AI for amazing recommender systems), but it seems personalizing your experience never really caught on. (Yeah, the YouTube algorithm kind of does this, but you unfortunately have no real control over it.)

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pests ◴[21 Oct 24 01:36 UTC] No.41899956[source]▶
> Yeah, the YouTube algorithm kind of does this, but you unfortunately have no real control over it.)

You do, indirectly. Just need to curate your last watched videos.

Sometimes I feel like I got put into a certain genre or bubble or if things autopplay a when I sleep I'll not ice my front page being taken over.

I just go delete some of those videos from my recent list I can see visible improvement.

Or just start a few video on the topic you want to see and then it's all you'll be recommended.

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1. Fnoord ◴[21 Oct 24 01:42 UTC] No.41899989[source]▶
This is possibly an interesting extension [1]. I just generally don't follow recommendations. But my kids love it, and they use my account (Premium, else they get all kind of inappropriate ads (which is even illegal)), so I have to be careful. So the other day I wanted to look into what the other political side had to say about something. You know, as a matter of broadening my view to gain some understanding. Boy, did I regret, as I was getting sucked into some kind of conspiracy bubble. My wife asked me what on earth I watched. So I ended up trying to have YouTube profile me as little as possible (via settings). Didn't fully solve it, but it is much more clean now. And if I do watch something which I don't want to be remembered: private browsing mode. I do this for porn, but unfortunately they do profile my IP address (so I should use a VPN).

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/regretsreport...