Comment by petercooper
2 days ago
This is a sort of alternative hack, but I run the Hacker News newest items through a filter that turns all the developer related ones into an RSS file, then I subscribe to that. Gives me a few hundred titles a day to quickly skim through but it works for me.
This is neat, do you have the code posted somewhere?
Not at this stage, but it's relatively simple. You can see the feed in question at https://heap2.com/hn-newest.rss
The basic process is fetching https://hnrss.org/newest then piping each item through gpt-4.1-mini with just the URL and title (I think fetching each actual page is overkill and a bit greedy) and asking it to figure out if something is likely to be development related. If it's a confident yes, that item then gets into the final feed. It cuts the firehose down quite a bit just with that simple approach.