Summate.it
AI
article summarizer
SHOW HN2023
How HN took it
5 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 6 critical, out of 24 comments about the project. Thread score +0.01.
Performance: 1 for, 4 againstIdea: 1 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Summaries of long papers were reasonable and impressive
From 1 comment
I put in several papers I am familiar with that are long and complex and got back reasonable sounding summaries. Impressed.
nazgulnarsil on HN
Key takeaways format is useful for deciding what to read
From 2 comments
This is great! Pocket and other read-it-later services should add a similar feature. I encounter far more articles than I make time to read. A quick, bulleted summary would be a…
goplayoutside on HNThat is cool, but it doesn't show me the key takeaways like the one in this post (Summate) does. I still have to RTFA after seeing the blurb on your service. Take the following…
selcuka on HN
Objections
OpenAI token limits mean long articles only partly summarized
From 2 comments
This is an issue. I haven't experimented to see if there are workarounds, so the service currently checks the length of the article text and if it's very long, it will send a…
k1m on HNThe hardest part is dealing with GPT token limits. You can't summarize long form text, where it's most needed.
alooPotato on HN
Trust concerns: summaries may miss or invert key negations
From 1 comment
Problem is, why should I trust it, that it doesn't miss or interpose "not" in crucial place? ChatGPT was caught in blatant lie (if we can say such about language model),…
blacklion on HN
Map-reduce summarization approaches reportedly do not work well
From 2 comments
It doesn't work but is a fun idea.
roflyear on HNI've tried it, it doesn't really work that well. There are other much more convoluted approaches that have promise (embedding searches is one)
alooPotato on HN
Requests
Summarize PDFs
From 1 comment
Is there something like this but for pdfs?
raybb on HN
Summarize locally saved files
From 1 comment
I want to see something like this applied to files saved locally. It would be much easier to find files based on what they're actually about rather the filename, metadata, or…
SinePost on HN
More expressive expand feature
From 1 comment
That looks amazing, just wish "expand" would expand a bit more, right now there is not much difference between first output and expanded one.
Giorgi on HN
Questions
How to handle long texts beyond token limits
From 2 comments
The hardest part is dealing with GPT token limits. You can't summarize long form text, where it's most needed.
alooPotato on HNAgreed, you can try sending it in chunks but then you lose context. Perhaps the ChatGPT based API will help if they expose the conversational memory as a feature. Maybe OP has…
cloudking on HN
Alternatives named
Quillbot summarizer
From 1 comment
Quillbot does also the similar. https://quillbot.com/summarize
s3arch on HN
GPT-Index and LangChain
From 1 comment
I didn't try, but it seems GPT-Index and LangChain use techniques to get around prompting length limits?
tluyben2 on HN
Autosummarized HN
From 2 comments
Related: Autosummarized HN – https://danieljanus.pl/autosummarized-hn/
nathell on HNThat is cool, but it doesn't show me the key takeaways like the one in this post (Summate) does. I still have to RTFA after seeing the blurb on your service. Take the following…
selcuka on HN
Kagi summarizer
From 1 comment
Try https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum
freediver on HN
gimmesummary.ai Chrome extension
From 1 comment
I built a chrome extension that does the same but uses chatgpt https://gimmesummary.ai
jerrygoyal on HN