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spoon404··on Show HN: HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts
I really dislike this but have to say it is impressive.

To test it I tried "Who Killed Paulina Borsook's Career?" The summary is correct I did not hear any errors. https://www.wired.com/story/paulina-borsook-profile/ https://hn.watch/?item=49866903

It did do what I expected from such a system: - It removed the fun parts of the article and the way it is written. - Stated some interpretations as fact without naming the source Article '"That gunshot prematurely aged my brain,” she said' Summary 'The impact prematurely aged her brain'

One surprise is did not like: The sharpest concrete thing was a .45 caliber bullet. Feels like some sort of attempt to add original humor and I do not like it.

This is the worst kind of article for this kind of summary and I feel like it really shows the most and least impressive parts of the system.

spoon404··on Public Montessori programs strengthen learning outcomes at lower costs: study
I went to a Montessori school in the Netherlands and feel like it failed me. Just one data point and maybe it was just a bad school.

I have autism and nobody noticed or did anything about it until it was time to start preparing for high school in seventh grade. I had read all the books in the school library but was not able to spell and write. It was just way to easy for me to escape work I did not want to do.

We moved after I started high school and my sisters had to change school because of it. One of the first things they noticed at their new school is how incredibly lazy they where.

I am very happy working as a mailman but I do wonder what I would be doing now if I had learned how to study and learn at a younger age.

spoon404··on Ask HN: What not-profit-seeking project are you tinkering with this week?
An open source website with digital skills lessons.

I'm a IT teacher in special education and got frustrated with the available materials and with my students having to log in everywhere to practice.

Pure HTML, CSS, Javascript. No cookies. You could even download the files from Github or download the site and it will still work.

I'm a pretty bad coder, but this is a lot of fun.