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       Show HN: Bring-your-own-key browser extension for summarizing HN
       posts with LLMs
        
       Hi Hacker News,  I developed an open source browser extension for
       summarizing Hacker News articles with OpenAI and Anthropic LLMs. It
       currently supports Chrome [1] and Firefox [2] (desktop).  The
       extension adds the summarize buttons to the HN front page and
       article pages.  It is bring-your-own-key, i.e. there's no back end
       behind it and the usage is free, you insert your API key and pay
       only for tokens to your LLM provider.  [1]
       https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/hacker-news-tldr/oo...
       [2] https://addons.mozilla.org/ru/firefox/addon/hacker-news-tl-d...
        
       Author : ivanyu
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2024-12-12 17:29 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | nickthegreek wrote:
       | Would be nice to be able to provide your own endpoint so it could
       | be directed to a local llm.
        
         | ivanyu wrote:
         | Thanks, good idea, this should be possible.
        
           | freedomben wrote:
           | That would be a pretty killer feature IMHO. Ollama's API is
           | pretty straightforward:
           | https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/docs/api.md
           | 
           | There is also (or at least used to be?) an OpenAI compatible
           | API layer for Ollama so that may be an option as well, though
           | my understanding is there are some downsides to using that.
           | 
           | Note: This comment and the link are just meant as
           | references/conveniences, not intended as a request for free
           | labor. Thanks for opening up the code!
        
             | moffkalast wrote:
             | Forget ollama, just changing the URL from openai to your
             | local server is enough, llama.cpp has a compatible
             | endpoint. Most people just don't bother giving the option
             | since you get a CORS error if it doesn't have a valid cert.
        
         | Diti wrote:
         | Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41810507
        
       | consumer451 wrote:
       | This sounds possibly useful, but I just don't trust extensions
       | unless I can see the code.
        
         | elpocko wrote:
         | https://github.com/ivanyu/hn-tldr-extension
        
           | consumer451 wrote:
           | I am an idiot for not looking at OP link. jeez. thanks.
        
       | tsunitsuni wrote:
       | I made something similar that works on any link with whatever
       | endpoint you want (and has special handling just for HN comments)
       | https://github.com/TetraTsunami/linklooker
        
       | alaq wrote:
       | I'd love it if it could summarize the HN comments as well.
        
       | androng wrote:
       | Related: to save on cost, Hacker News is already summarized and
       | available in feed form which I find better than the default front
       | page where you have to read the same headlines repeatedly because
       | the order of the headlines changes on the front page.
       | https://hackernews.betacat.io/ I also dislike how the titles on
       | hacker news are so short that often they dont give enough
       | information. e.g. headline: "Amazon Penterhorse". What is that??
       | that doesn't exist but the point is I have to click through to
       | see it and its annoying. And on some posts when I click on some
       | links the person's blog post is just way longer than my interest
       | level so it doesn't get the point across. These summaries are
       | just the right length.
        
         | francasso wrote:
         | I just read the summary for "Fermat's Last Theorem - how it's
         | going" on that page and it completely missed the point of the
         | article
        
       | simonebrunozzi wrote:
       | Finally!
       | 
       | I tried to build something like this a few years back [0], I
       | thought it was a great idea, but LLMs were not available yet, and
       | I was busy with a hundred other things.
       | 
       | You can see an example of the summary there.
       | 
       | [0]: https://github.com/simonebrunozzi/MNMN
        
       | fudged71 wrote:
       | I've been pretty happy lately with my setup.
       | 
       | Arc browser lets you hover over a link to show a card that
       | summarizes the article.
       | 
       | With Claude Projects, I'm able to quickly build an Arc "Boost"
       | User Script for any site, so I have one to export the HN homepage
       | to JSON to import into an LLM. And I have one on comment pages to
       | do the same. I have a userscript to remove pagination so I can
       | infinitely scroll and then export.
       | 
       | Ad I have a Claude Project specifically for
       | identifying/categorizing comment threads by the patterns of
       | knowledge crystallization etc. It's been fascinating so far.
        
       | ionwake wrote:
       | Brilliant, Love it. Excellent execution.
        
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