TLDR This
Productivity
article summarizer
SHOW HN2019
235points
114comments
#149of 2,195 in 2019
Top 7%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
11 positive, 18 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 16 critical, out of 47 comments about the project. Thread score -0.10.
Idea: 3 for, 8 againstExecution: 3 for, 6 againstDesign: 3 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 against
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Works well on several articles
From 2 comments
Congrats! It worked well on a few sample articles that I tried. Can you provide background on how the text is summarized?
valiant-comma on HNJust tried on one of my articles. Good job! It works like a charm! Any high level info on how it works?
belzebalex on HN
Chrome extension is useful
From 2 comments
I think it is a good summarizer, I also saw a few others cited in the comments. Has anyone seen one that is a browser add-in where if I am surfing around and see a long article…
zw123456 on HNI found this really useful for my articles. The short snippets would work well as tweets, a tweet bot for article summaries would be cool!
FraserGreenlee on HN
Objections
Fails on some articles and pages, such as Wikipedia and landing pages
From 3 comments
Some info about it would be great? Do you use an AI model? Do you do semantic analysis? Is it open source? I tried it on a wikipedia article and it didn't work too well.
megaremote on HNI tried some of my articles and it's not really helpful. I even have a conclusion in my articles which is completely ignored. For example:…
nik736 on HNWhen I use it on our landingpage it simply extracts one sentence from the page: Use state-of-the-art pseudonymization and anonymization methods to secure your data in real-time.…
ThePhysicist on HN
Extractive, not true summarization
From 1 comment
Sorry, i've some experience in this field: - This is text-extraction, NOT text-generation - TextRank algorithm is so far fine, but it does not write a "summary", instead it ranks…
hacker089 on HN
Copyright concerns from redistributing content server-side
From 2 comments
> But we aren't storing any information on our servers, just showing selected sentences to the user. If this is in reference to the copyright comment, it doesn't matter -- you're…
andreareina on HN> If this is in reference to the copyright comment, it doesn't matter -- you're still transmitting/redistributing the content, which is what matters. I'm pretty sure this would…
nkozyra on HN
Requests
Open source release
From 1 comment
How does this work? Is it Free Software?
m712 on HN
Firefox and Safari support
From 2 comments
Hi! We have added the link for Firefox extension. Please check it out and provide your feedback. Thank you!
radhakrsna on HNWe are glad that you liked it. I will try to port it to Safari. Thank you very much for taking the time to use the app and provide your feedback.
radhakrsna on HN
API endpoint
From 1 comment
It would be great if you could offer a parameter in your URL so I could make a get request like https://tldr.hackeryogi.com/?url=somearticleurl.com I would embed that in…
wishrider on HN
Questions
How does the summarization work
From 2 comments
Congrats! It worked well on a few sample articles that I tried. Can you provide background on how the text is summarized?
valiant-comma on HNJust tried on one of my articles. Good job! It works like a charm! Any high level info on how it works?
belzebalex on HN
Is it an AI model or semantic analysis
From 1 comment
Some info about it would be great? Do you use an AI model? Do you do semantic analysis? Is it open source? I tried it on a wikipedia article and it didn't work too well.
megaremote on HN
Alternatives named
smmry.com
From 1 comment
How is this different than https://smmry.com/ ? The autotldr bot has been active for a number of years on reddit, summarizing articles quite well.
skunkworker on HN
Outline.com
From 1 comment
On this note - anyone familiar with a similar implementation, preferably one like Outline.com that copies the whole content, but in a local.. none web-based format? I'm writing a…
asdkhadsj on HN
autotldr Reddit bot
From 1 comment
How is this different than https://smmry.com/ ? The autotldr bot has been active for a number of years on reddit, summarizing articles quite well.
skunkworker on HN
Summly
From 1 comment
I like the name, this sounds similar to (or in the same space as) Summly, which morphed into News Digest, a former Yahoo service which was sold to them by a British teenager for…
mellosouls on HN
ilazytoread
From 1 comment
How is it differnt than this? https://ilazytoread.herokuapp.com/
XCSme on HN