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GPT-3 generated Hacker News summaries in the style of n-gate.com

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#gpt-3#hacker news#n-gate#text summarization#satire

25points
7comments
#1,520of 3,109 in 2023
Top 49%of 2023 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

1 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 1 critical, out of 6 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.

Execution: 1 for, 1 against

The thread, comment by comment

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

What HN said

What people liked

  • Summaries capture the tone of Hacker News well

    From 1 comment
    • > An Internet posts a five-thousand-word essay about how Emacs is better than everything else. Hackernews is both pleased with the essay and contemptuous of the competition.…
      neilalexander on HN
  • Some summaries are decent

    From 2 comments
    • Some of these are pretty decent. Several more are almost so.
      AnIdiotOnTheNet on HN
    • These seem to work pretty well. I'm doing a similar kind of summarization based with https://infobot.ai and wondering how you guys do it? Is it just GPT-3 or more complex than…
      inventtheday on HN

Objections

  • Summaries mostly restate the post with n-gate vocabulary rather than n-gate's witty over-hype critique

    From 1 comment
    • Im not sure if this is any good. The main point of n-gate is some witty comment on Over-hype and over zealous comments made here it HN, like an old timer who is frustrated with…
      anaganisk on HN

Requests

  • Run it in the style of Drew Curtis' FARK.com

    From 1 comment
    • Nice. Run it again in the style of Drew Curtis' FARK.com.
      piceas on HN
  • Make it a feed reader feed on a schedule

    From 1 comment
    • What happened to ngate? I miss their snark. Dunno if a robot doing it has the same feel but I'd give it a go in the feed reader if it was on the same schedule.
      corobo on HN

Questions

  • Is it just GPT-3 or more complex than that?

    From 1 comment
    • These seem to work pretty well. I'm doing a similar kind of summarization based with https://infobot.ai and wondering how you guys do it? Is it just GPT-3 or more complex than…
      inventtheday on HN

Alternatives named

  • infobot.ai for similar summarization

    From 1 comment
    • These seem to work pretty well. I'm doing a similar kind of summarization based with https://infobot.ai and wondering how you guys do it? Is it just GPT-3 or more complex than…
      inventtheday on HN

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