The Daily Bin is out
I made a new site over at https://thedailybin.com. It's an attempt at making my own frontpage of the tech world and it looks like this:
What is it?
Under the hood it's a Github Actions job that runs every day that does a little bit of git-scraping. It downloads hackernews discussions from the API provided by algolia and these are processed by LLMs and turned into articles. I also generate some images to go along with them to make it look extra nice, but the main goal is to have a "personal newspaper" with a funnel that I can streer towards things that I am interested in.
Why make it?
There are a few reasons:
- It's a fun excuse to expose myself to LLMs some more. I can do write demos in a notebook or I could try and make a useful project out of it that I can try to take serious. There are a bunch of prompts that interact in this system, so there's a bunch to learn by trying to do it right.
- I like having a short list that I can glance at every morning and then get on with my day. This project let's me control that.
- Other people might also like it.
- This project might have some legs to it long term. Right now I am just looking at hackernews but I could also add reddit or arxiv summaries at some point.
More details?
I shared some initial details of how this whole project is set up on my YouTube channel. If that sounds intesting, feel free to check it here: