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Show HN: Hacker News frontpage as a print newspaper that you can personalize

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304 points nimbusega | 1 comments | 06 Nov 24 15:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.258s | source
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nimbusega ◴[06 Nov 24 18:32 UTC] No.42067000[source]▶
I made this to experiment with embeddings and explore how different ways of displaying information affect your perception.

It gets the top 100 stories, sends their html to GPT-4 to extract the main content (this was not producing good enough results with html parsing) and then gets an embedding using the title and content.

Likes/dislikes are stored in local storage and compared against all stories using cosine similarity to find the most relevant stories.

It costs about $10/day to run. I was thinking of offering additional value for a small subscription. Maybe more pages of the newspaper, full story content/comments, a weekly digest or ePub export or something?

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1. tagawa ◴[07 Nov 24 01:44 UTC] No.42072371[source]▶
Nice – I like this a lot. I feel like I'd use this for slow-lane reading and the original HN site when I'm in a rush.

Regarding HTML to GPT-4, I seem to remember commenters here saying they got better results by converting the HTML to Markdown first, then sending to an LLM. Might save a bit of money too.