Show HN: Summate.it – Quickly summarize web articles with OpenAI

I put in several papers I am familiar with that are long and complex and got back reasonable sounding summaries. Impressed.

The hardest part is dealing with GPT token limits. You can't summarize long form text, where it's most needed.

I wonder how it does with these lengthy TOSs that are everywhere these days. EDIT: doh! No large blocks of text.

Quillbot does also the similar.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;quillbot.com&#x2F;summarize" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;quillbot.com&#x2F;summarize</a>

I built a chrome extension that does the same but uses chatgpt<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gimmesummary.ai" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gimmesummary.ai</a>

This* was a good primer to understand the different flavours of summarization technology for end user.<p>It would be good if these tools labeled their capabilities as extractive or abstractive:<p>Extractive: extract the most relevant information from a document.<p>Abstractive: generate new text that captures the most relevant information.<p>* <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;docs&#x2F;transformers&#x2F;tasks&#x2F;summarization" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;huggingface.co&#x2F;docs&#x2F;transformers&#x2F;tasks&#x2F;summarization</a>

That looks amazing, just wish &quot;expand&quot; would expand a bit more, right now there is not much difference between first output and expanded one.

Wasnt there a Wonder kid who sold something like this to yahoo? Ahh the early 2010&#x27;s - what a time to be alive.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uktech.news&#x2F;news&#x2F;nick-daloisios-news-aggregation-app-summly-shut-down-by-yahoo-20170624" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uktech.news&#x2F;news&#x2F;nick-daloisios-news-aggregation...</a>

This reminds me of the &quot;Summarize&quot; service in OS X that I totally forgot about until just now.

Problem is, why should I trust it, that it doesn&#x27;t miss or interpose &quot;not&quot; in crucial place?<p>ChatGPT was caught in blatant lie (if we can say such about language model), presented with 100% confidence (if we can say such about language model) multiple times.

This is great! Pocket and other read-it-later services should add a similar feature.<p>I encounter far more articles than I make time to read. A quick, bulleted summary would be a great way to help determine which articles I want to spend more time on

Related: Autosummarized HN – <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;danieljanus.pl&#x2F;autosummarized-hn&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;danieljanus.pl&#x2F;autosummarized-hn&#x2F;</a>

Nice Easter egg: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;summate.it&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;summate.it" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;summate.it&#x2F;https:&#x2F;&#x2F;summate.it</a>

Project idea: A HackerNews or reddit client that displays summaries before you click through.

I want to see something like this applied to files saved locally. It would be much easier to find files based on what they&#x27;re actually about rather the filename, metadata, or specific quotations.

Is there something like this but for pdfs?

this is a cool little tool!

soon writers will be writing summaries to get open ai to expand into articles which readers will have open ai summarize so they can read summaries.<p>ais writing for other ais<p>itsallsotiresome.gif

Reminds me of the quote &quot;Speed reading is like reading - just without comprehension&quot;