alt Hacker NewsWith LLMs, you could actually do anti-clickbait titles. Extract the article text with something like r.jina.ai, and ask an LLM to generate a ~80-character summary that explains the main point of the article for people too busy to read it.
I do think this would genuinely be useful.
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john_strinlai • today at 3:11 PM
back in my day, people just used the thing that rattles around inside their skull for such tasks
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You're absolutely right! (errm...oops....anyways...)
The fact that LLMs usually generate anodyne summaries is actualy a benefit here.
I used my website-to-markdown tool[0] to get the text, piped the output to claude -p and got a pretty decent "Patching Copy Fail at scale: how bpf-lsm bought us time before the kernel reboot" result.
[0] https://markshot.dev