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Ask HN: Any HN clone that improves headlines using AI?

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I want a Hacker News (HN) clone that:

- Reformulates question headlines into statements that include the actual answer. - Headlines that mention something is better or worse should include a metric - Includes in headlines for academic papers how much the paper improves the state-of-the-art (SOTA). - Filters out clickbait titles to ensure that headlines are informative and relevant. - Highlights articles with detailed technical insights, making it easier to find in-depth content. - Adds tags or categories to help users quickly identify the main topic of each article. - Filters out articles that are purely self-promotional or advertisements. - Prioritizes content that has been peer-reviewed or verified by experts in the field.

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You can try to do that already with a prompt to your favorite LLM.

But to point out the obvious problems, headlines that are a) informative and b) very concise are contradictory. The other major problem is that if there is no incentive to click a link due to the summaries (e.g. the Perplexity problem), there is less of a reason for people to write the content since they don't get the recognition/revenue from it.

Quick way to impliment what's requested is to set up search engine/web scrape of article and find the article's doi number.

if the article has doi number, then can quickly find/filter on the requested statistics on-line and generate a personal interest ranking metric without using 'AI'. aka no peer review / subject field expert review(s), rank as 'don't display'

CrossRef[0] is a site that has related direct/indirect doi / paper statistics. note: Journals and publishers have their own platforms where you can access usage statistics for papers with DOIs. Things done prior to DOI's might require some AI/chatgpt stuff.

abstracts/synopsis section of papers and/or search engine AI generated synopsis/summary might be a quick/easy way to assess 'technical content'.

[0] : http://www.crossref.org/

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'state of the art' side note(s):

'State of the art' kind of depends on subject matter / intended context.

Automobile industry, state of the are is good for about 1yr. Digital electronics, may be as little as 24hrs when the next patch is pushed out.

Researching what was 'state of the art' in 1850's ( aka mechanical fax[1]) bit different context than 'current now' state of the art.

[1] mechanical / digital fax : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax

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HN customization via browser plug-ins side notes:

One potential option would be to request modifications to a web browser plugin to be able to 'use/generate a customized metric of how to curate/filter what gets display from HN'.

example of potential canidate site for modification request if using chrome web browser : http://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hacker-news-enhancem...

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Misc other ways to curate HN side notes:

a) check out "Ask HN: Is there a way to customize stories on hacker news?" : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40074360

b) Add-on relevant filter metrics to HN / Emacs combo : https://github.com/clarete/hackernews.el

c) Dump HN RSS to relevant filter metric script / AI,chatgpt bot and feed only what want. HN RSS : https://hnrss.github.io/

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