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Would love to get people's feedback - built this for myself over the weekend as a way to accelerate and limit my reading of HN (and being inspired by the NLP course from Stanford).

The NLP is pretty basic and takes a ratio of the original article, so you do get some longer listings.

Big thanks to Wayne Larsen of hckrnews.com for providing me with some insight on tracking top stories and letting me use his ranking data. Also, I recommend http://www.hackernewsletter.com/ for a human-curated version.

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I like your workflow in the department of signups (no password, no 'account', opt-out in every email). However, I entered my email yesterday, got screen saying 'email is being delivered as we speak' and did not receive the email. Side effect - I can not reregister, reset password or what not ('Email address has already been taken').

Effectively, unsuccessful sign-up locks user out. You could provide some options (resend? remove?) where 'Email address has already been taken' is now.

Edit: 'unsuccessful sign-up' - seems like success is fractional here.

Is the code online? If not, any chance you would consider it? I'm into NLP (I wrote http://bookshrink.com) and would love to see how you did this!

Hi peter_l_downs - the summarizer is based on Open Text Summarizer (http://libots.sourceforge.net/) which works very similarly to your page at bookshrink (TF-IDF sentence scoring). I made some minor edits that accommodate article structure.

Bookshrink has some pretty amusing summaries... it reminded me of this meme a while back where people would paste books into Microsoft Word and AutoSummarize it down to 6 words :)

It would be cool if I could see a sample before signing up.

Just subscribed - some very nice summaries in there. Do you have any links you could share related to how you worked out what's relevant? I've an extended project which I want to do on basic NLP and this seems very relevant. Thanks!

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