| I've been lurking on HN for years. You know the drill: interesting headline, 200+ comments, you dive in thinking "I'll just skim for 5 minutes"... and an hour later you're 36 chambers deep in a thread about memory allocation patterns in Postgres and you've completely forgotten what the original article was about. I don't just want a "summary" (which usually just shortens the noise). I want the meta-consensus: "What is the actual trade-off being debated? Who is winning the argument? Why does this matter?" So I built HNSignals. Think of it less like a "summarizer" and more like a Chief of Staff who reads the entire thread for you and hands you a one-page executive brief. How it works:
1. Filters: Shows trending stories (50+ comments) where the discussion has heated up.
2. Extracts: An AI (Qwen 3 via Venice.ai) reads the top comments.
3. Structures: Instead of a wall of text, you get 4 specific signals:
- The Hook: Why you should care.
- The Gist: The core technical facts.
- The Debate: The actual friction point (e.g., "Rust vs. C++ safety").
- The Verdict: The community consensus. Why I'm showing this (Beta): Most AI tools just shorten the text. I'm trying to extract the signal. It's a work in progress - the AI sometimes gets too clever, and I'm still tuning the cache strategy. I'd love feedback on whether this structured approach is actually better than a standard "TL;DR." Bonus meta-game: If this Show HN gets 50+ comments and makes it onto HNSignals itself, I'll read the AI's analysis of people analyzing my analyzer.
(P.S. Please go easy on the intentional stress testing - my Lambda inference budget is finite!) Try it: https://hnsignals.com Example output
The Heartbleed Bug (2014): https://hnsignals.com/signal/7548991
Ask HN: What is the most unethical thing you've done as a programmer? (2018): https://hnsignals.com/signal/17692005
Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python, Scala and OCaml (2019): https://hnsignals.com/signal/20192645
OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin (2020): https://hnsignals.com/signal/23885684
Apple, What Have You Done? (2026): https://hnsignals.com/signal/46763592 |
Personally I was really looking forward to some quality time here. Cheers!