Show HN: Was tired of drowning in HN comments, so I built an AI Chief of Staff(hnsignals.com)

5 pointsby rektlessness6 mesi fa2 comments

Show HN: Was tired of drowning in HN comments, so I built an AI Chief of Staff

https://hnsignals.com/

I've been lurking on HN for years. You know the drill: interesting headline, 200+ comments, you dive in thinking "I'll just skim for 5 minutes"... and an hour later you're 36 chambers deep in a thread about memory allocation patterns in Postgres and you've completely forgotten what the original article was about.

I don't just want a "summary" (which usually just shortens the noise). I want the meta-consensus: "What is the actual trade-off being debated? Who is winning the argument? Why does this matter?"

So I built HNSignals. Think of it less like a "summarizer" and more like a Chief of Staff who reads the entire thread for you and hands you a one-page executive brief.

How it works: 1. Filters: Shows trending stories (50+ comments) where the discussion has heated up. 2. Extracts: An AI (Qwen 3 via Venice.ai) reads the top comments. 3. Structures: Instead of a wall of text, you get 4 specific signals: - The Hook: Why you should care. - The Gist: The core technical facts. - The Debate: The actual friction point (e.g., "Rust vs. C++ safety"). - The Verdict: The community consensus.

Why I'm showing this (Beta): Most AI tools just shorten the text. I'm trying to extract the signal. It's a work in progress - the AI sometimes gets too clever, and I'm still tuning the cache strategy. I'd love feedback on whether this structured approach is actually better than a standard "TL;DR."

Bonus meta-game: If this Show HN gets 50+ comments and makes it onto HNSignals itself, I'll read the AI's analysis of people analyzing my analyzer. (P.S. Please go easy on the intentional stress testing - my Lambda inference budget is finite!)

Try it: https://hnsignals.com

Example output The Heartbleed Bug (2014): https://hnsignals.com/signal/7548991 Ask HN: What is the most unethical thing you've done as a programmer? (2018): https://hnsignals.com/signal/17692005 Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python, Scala and OCaml (2019): https://hnsignals.com/signal/20192645 OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin (2020): https://hnsignals.com/signal/23885684 Apple, What Have You Done? (2026): https://hnsignals.com/signal/46763592

2 comments

metadat6 mesi fa

As a heads up: I think it's just showing the original titles at the moment.

Personally I was really looking forward to some quality time here. Cheers!

rektlessness6 mesi fa

Thanks for trying it out. I set a high water mark of >50 comments to ensure signal quality. There is also a 5 min cache. Try any story with 50+ comments. Here's one: https://hnsignals.com/signal/6135833