Comment by toomuchtodo
7 days ago
Feature request: HN could support a tag or label for categorizing a post. This would allow for filtering trivially, and creating views based on participant interest.
7 days ago
Feature request: HN could support a tag or label for categorizing a post. This would allow for filtering trivially, and creating views based on participant interest.
Wouldn't be hard to train an LLM to do it!
Indeed! Previous:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44261825
I suppose an extension is the answer, classifying and customizing the user’s view accordingly with a pluggable LLM config.
weve just explored a HN site-reskin as a quick way to validate this, and I now use it for my browsing every day. Its a pretty transparent "profile" that gets applied by an llm to rank your HN frontpage, but would be trivial to shift that to a filter.
An extension could be a powerful way to apply it without having to leave HN, but I wonder if that (and our website prototype) is a short term solution. I can imaging having an extension per news/content site, or an "alt site" for each that takes into account your preferences, but it feels clunky.
OTOH having a generic llm in browser that does this for all sites feels quite far off, so maybe the narrow solutions where you really care about it are the way to go?
Maybe you'll want to try Techne: https://techne.app.
Someone has probably developed a personalized browser for HN.
https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news is perhaps relevant.
If someone wants to add LLM pluggable support (API endpoint target) and it’ll work on Firefox, I’m willing to kick in some fiat. “HN Copilot.”
Not a browser but a reskin website: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44454305
I don't know if you're allowed to promote alternatives to HN, but Lobste.rs has tags which you can follow or completely block. Plus I've found the quality of the discussion is higher than HN, at the cost of much lower quantity.
> at the cost of much lower quantity.
Which they could solve by having a less dumb invite system. They can very easily confirm I am not a bot nor a spammer based on any number of objective metrics I can provide to them. But instead the answer is "idle in IRC, hope for the best" and thus they end up with the audience who is willing to jump through those hoops
If you're looking for an invite my email is on my hn profile, email me and I'll invite you
That is a perennial proposal as far as I remember.
I second that emotion.
Keyword filters on the user side would avoid adding extra steps to submitting and moderation. Categories are an extra complication.