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Shown by _uchf on Nov 24, 2013. Click the card to turn it over.

95points

33comments

#237of 1,739 in 2013

Top 14%of 2013 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

4 positive, 13 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 8 critical, out of 27 comments about the project. Thread score -0.15.

Execution: 1 for, 4 againstIdea: 1 for, 4 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against

Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.

positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

Summaries are bullet fragments and sometimes poor quality
From 2 comments
- The new Xbox vs PS article summary is horrible, though: ``` * It's also a great gaming system – it has great games this year. * Ronald Reagan was president, MTV had just launched…
  sesqu on HN
- The "summaries" are just bullets. Use a better summary API. https://www.mashape.com/stremor
  drakaal on HN
Celebrity news shows up instead of important stories
From 1 comment
- I subscribed to the email service a while back. Then on the day the Iranian embassy was bombed, what'd I get summarized? Celebrity news. I won't subscribe again unless there's a…
  TossThisIsh on HN
Font choice is Times New Roman, hard to read
From 1 comment
- Very nicely done! I would check out Twitter bootstrap or look for a font, that's the only thing that I dislike is the times new roman font. For a website that's focused on…
  skadamat on HN
Site did not work for one user
From 1 comment
- The wikipedia portal is really good thanks for that. Also the bit of news website didnt work for me.
  dredwerker on HN

RSS feed
From 2 comments
- Do you have any plans to add RSS feeds?
  v1tyaz on HN
- My favorite terse world news source these days is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events For a long time I've wanted a new source that will only show me stories that…
  scottjad on HN
Email newsletter with category selection
From 1 comment
- I'm impressed - clean interface, consumable, and actually really great summaries. The e-mail newsletter version of this sounds very useful. It would be great to be able to select…
  ajiang on HN

What is the underlying technology
From 1 comment
- These are actually really good summaries, though in one case it was to commenting policy that was summarized, not the article... Still I think the best summaries I've seen. I'd…
  nmcfarl on HN
Does it use TFIDF and extract meaningful sentences
From 1 comment
- Very cool! Do you use TFDF and then extract the most "meaningful" sentences?
  taylorbuley on HN

Wikipedia Current Events portal
From 2 comments
- My favorite terse world news source these days is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events For a long time I've wanted a new source that will only show me stories that…
  scottjad on HN
- Another vote for Wikipedia's Current Events portal. So much better than nearly everything out there.
  TossThisIsh on HN
Circa
From 1 comment
- There's a similar Android app called Circa.
  dublinben on HN
Quartz daily newsletter
From 1 comment
- Seems good although Quartz (http://qz.com/) daily newsletter seems more than enough for me.
  tr4656 on HN
Infobitt
From 1 comment
- Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger is working on something similar, not yet launched, called 'Infobitt': http://infobitt.com (Unsure if that'll be its launch name, and there's…
  gojomo on HN
tldr.io
From 1 comment
- This is a good chance to mention an alternative news in bullet points site, tldr.io, which uses human created summaries. http://tldr.io/discover
  tedmiston on HN
Klipper
From 1 comment
- And another new one called http://www.klipperapp.com
  aronvox on HN
Summly
From 1 comment
- reminds me of summly
  elwell on HN