frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Open Source @Github

fp.

Open in hackernews

Show HN: A Platform to Find Essays, personally recommended to you

https://essaypod.com/
1•Lithuanian•1h ago
Reading a book is great, when you know it will be good. Reading news is great, when you know it will be interesting, and the same with essays.

Inability to find great content to read became a huge pain point for me after I read through Paul Graham's essays.

Then I decided to build a tiny scraper app that would crawl seed websites (I crawled paulgraham.com and situationalawareness.ai) and then embed the content of the site. Among the scraped essays, there were ones I was extremely happy about. To find essays that best fit my taste, I just represented myself as a mean vector of essays I liked, then I used cosine similarity to find gems among tons of garbage that the scraper found.

I turned this into a platform which in principle is quite similar, except that people are the ones sharing essays (of their own or external, like on hacker news) and the algorithm is more advanced.

What differentiates this from substack or HN is summaries of essays which save time and reduce risk of wasting time and an algorithm that ensures that you find essays that people like you liked the most.

I can explain the technical details, if you'd like. Thanks, for your attention.

Comments

Lithuanian•56m ago
Algorithm: The algorithm embeds each piece of content as a 256 dimension vector, each essay gets one of these. When a user interacts with essays in a good way, the user becomes more similar to the essay and the essays interaction vector becomes more similar to the user. Best content is found by finding the most similar essay and essay interaction vectors to the user. This way finding new content (due to interaction vectors in the essay) becomes possible and it is likely to be great.

Who Pays for AI Data Centers?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyOeLB0WVNE
1•Betelbuddy•2m ago•0 comments

I'm Still Convinced the iPod Was the Perfect Gadget

https://www.wired.com/story/im-still-convinced-the-ipod-was-the-perfect-gadget/
1•vikas-sharma•3m ago•0 comments

John Carmack on the Goose Language: multiple data stacks and relative references

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/2113704269274636568
2•bobbydigitales•4m ago•0 comments

Poldi – Local offline AI assistant/"companion" for the GPU poor

https://github.com/RhinoDevel/poldi
1•RhinoDevel•4m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How do you effectively prevent full-site cloning and back end hacking?

1•shaikhmubin•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mini-batch k-means clustering for PyTorch tensors

https://github.com/mb-14/minibatch-kmeans
1•mb14•5m ago•0 comments

An examination of lost firefly species of the US and Canada

https://journaloflostspecies.org/index.php/jls/article/view/37/33
1•bryanrasmussen•6m ago•0 comments

PHP Foundation 'under-funded' with one full-time staff member, director says

https://www.reuters.com/technology/php-foundation-under-funded-with-one-full-time-staff-member-di...
4•firesteelrain•7m ago•0 comments

Building agents: When to fold subagents into your main agent loop

https://claude.com/resources/articles/building-agents-when-to-fold-subagents-into-your-main-agent...
1•pretext•8m ago•0 comments

NHTSA Updates Vehicle Lighting Standards for AVs

https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/vehicle-lighting-updates-automated-vehicles
1•reaperducer•8m ago•0 comments

Walt – Degoogled Tap-to-Pay

https://walt.is
3•flawn•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Infinite-Zoom Collaborative Canvas

https://neverendingpainting.art/
1•theneverendingp•20m ago•1 comments

About the compromised eMudhra intermediate CAs

https://support.apple.com/en-us/149555
4•stalfosknight•22m ago•0 comments

It Looked Like a New Species. The Trouble Was, It Didn't Exist

https://thelivinglib.org/it-looked-like-a-new-species-the-trouble-was-it-didnt-exist/
1•jruohonen•24m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What's your vision of the care-free life?

1•llkyh•29m ago•0 comments

AI: EU Member States approve "digital expropriation" for AI companies

https://noyb.eu/en/ai-eu-member-states-approve-digital-expropriation-europeans-ai-companies
3•h1x•37m ago•1 comments

Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS Office

https://www.computerworld.dk/art/297226/digitaliseringsministeriet-har-i-al-stilhed-droppet-stort...
28•lowkeyokay•39m ago•1 comments

Chess Arena – Minimal chess vs. Hard AI (vanilla JavaScript, no login)

https://playgama.ai/play/xl6duef7p3
2•Roniad•45m ago•0 comments

GPU tensor unlock source for RTX 4090 and experimental RTX 4070 Ti SUPER

https://github.com/JustAResearcher/gpu-unlock-ada
3•simonpure•47m ago•1 comments

Dream-1

https://dreamlabs.ai/research/dream-1/
37•GaggiX•47m ago•12 comments

Bbtree: Fastest Ordered Map

https://bbtree.xiangpeng.systems/post/
2•aoli-al•49m ago•0 comments

Show HN: A randomized controlled trial run inside an agent simulation

https://jameswniu.github.io/multi-agent-causal-marriage-simulation/
1•Hazelbolts•51m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Agentsh – A Decentralized, Scalable Multiagent Harness

https://github.com/microsoft/Agensh
1•brunoborges•51m ago•0 comments

Glymphatic clearance to alleviate traumatic brain edema& Alzheimer's pathology

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aeh8870
14•ersinesen•52m ago•3 comments

Decompiling Fast Food Tycoon 2: Drawing the World

https://healeycodes.com/decompiling-fast-food-tycoon-2-drawing-the-world
1•healeycodes•53m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Windows Signing for FOSS Projects

2•johnj-hn•54m ago•0 comments

What if you could have AI applied to your brain?

1•whiteangel1984•54m ago•0 comments

OpenLoco, a remake of the 1998 classic game Lego Loco

https://github.com/AlexSDevDump/OPEN-LOCO
1•mschuster91•55m ago•1 comments

Show HN: The missing clipboard history for macOS that idles at 16 MB

https://roush.io/paste-buff
3•jjroush•55m ago•0 comments

What would be effective ways to market our SaaS application

https://statusentry.com/
1•elfingman•55m ago•1 comments