I then went to "past" and nothing from yesterday.
I then realised this site is based off the current front-page.
So I forced the "past" page to be today, and it's the third result: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2026-03-16
But it's not on my actual front-page.
So this must have been done at a very brief window when this story was top, which even hnrankings didn't capture: https://hnrankings.info/47393619/
I think this would be better if powered by https://news.ycombinator.com/front , which is relatively stable after a day.
Otherwise you've ended up with a brief snapshot, and not the top posts of the day.
It also seems odd to have a "summary of 16/03" produced while that day has barely begun in the US timezone, so looking retrospectively at the previous day would make this better.
Will look into tightening this up
What do you mean "no other way to do it"? Traditionally these sort of things been curated, by humans who read and make judgements, how is that not another way to do it? Probably would solve the whole "bit... bland?" problem to, given the right curator.
That would not be a mere project, but a huge commitment. Which would be devalued if the content was not published consistently, regularly, predictably with no vacations, etc.
It would be a truly honorable commitment (I greatly appreciate similar efforts by people elsewhere), but not one to be made lightly.
(Edit: despite the "not a...but a" construction above, this comment is HI only, and not even much of that! :-)
On the other hand, the HN front page is already the result of collective curation.
The approach I tried was to rely mainly on what comments I've upvoted, have the AI look at those comments and gather context from the article/link and the parent comment chain, then give me a "here's what you learned yesterday" brief.
I had plans to add some memory to mention related things from recent weeks. Relying mainly on being able to visually code all this with n8n, and never quite got it working.
1. https://absent.dev/ 2. https://absent.dev/episode/ABS-0014/clusters
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hmm
Would it be possible to:
- do "horizontal" swiping gesture to go to next/previous summarized article? Kind of like instagram stories
- keep the link to original article as I scroll through the summary so I can quickly navigate to full article if the summary is interesting?
I made a thing[0] that splits stories by day without mixing old popular with new stories. That helped cut down my HN visits to a few times per day. [I had originally made it to list all stories on one page and load story links at stops in a subway/metro commute.]
What I'm finding now is that there's too much noise at the top and what I really want to see are the stories not upvoted by mainstream/populist interests--if anyone knows a solution to that, please share.
You'll find variants with one or other of those meanings all derived from latin in a number of other languages too, e.g. "brev" in Norwegian (letter).
This was for the bigfoot story: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-new-bigfoot-documentary-...
I wonder why.
