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Yeah, it would be cool if someone made a bot to extract a summary from the article and post it as a comment to help those who have not read the article.

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Someone did. Or faked one. IIRC it was active for a few days but was told in clear terms to stop or be banned.

Somewhat related: I have been using the HN bot on Telegram. That way I could even catch a glimpse of wildly popular stories that have been flagged of the site :-)

A TL;DR service could maybe be made as a browser extension that pulls it from some external source instead. Not visible for those that don't want it, and also removes the problem from having to hunt for the TL;DR comment when there are many replies.

There's a bot like this on Reddit that works surprisingly well.

The one I've seen (and been impressed with) uses http://smmry.com/ to condense articles to a tldr.

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