by soared on 6/21/2025, 2:02:32 PM
Maybe spending the entire morning on hn is not the best idea, and maybe having an ai agent read hn for you is not necessary. I’m struggling to understand the use case. How do I benefit from using this? The website looks like it’s just HN but with an image and summary?
I see your feature list, but I don’t see what a user would do with it.
Edit - oh never mind, you post this once a quarter for over a year and it’s the only thing youve ever posted.
by ukuina on 6/21/2025, 2:39:50 PM
While this specific app may be paid, I built https://HackYourNews.com (free) specifically to "summarize HN for me" and it grew to include many other websites. Uses Gemini Flash under the hood and summarizes both the story AND the HN comments!
by greybox on 6/21/2025, 3:59:15 PM
This is cool, I always like to see local-first services on Mobile.
All of these features are great, and it's really cool that I can have them run locally on my phone, but what I feel is really missing on the Mobile App market right now is AI cross app automation.
I'm not sure it's possible with IOS right now though.
For instance: I went to france earlier this year, and before I went I saw this french vocabulary sheet that was just an image. I wanted to get the text from the image, format it into a csv with english in column 1 and french in column 2 and then export it to anki, which is also on my phone. AnkiDriod has this feature, and Gemini can deffinitely do OCR, translation and text formatting, however I had to do all the awkward app switching and input myself! This is the bit I wanted automated
by Y_Y on 6/21/2025, 2:48:01 PM
What about an agent that picks the best idea, steals it, runs the business for a while, goes bankrupt, and then emails you an executive summary of bitesize "learnings" from the exercise.
You can't summarize your way to success! If you're spending more time clicking and reading filler words than you are thinking, then you're doomed from the start.
by Linell on 6/21/2025, 3:13:06 PM
If you like this idea, I made something similar at https://saguaro.thelinell.com, although it works using various RSS feeds.
by ClawsOnPaws on 6/21/2025, 2:47:04 PM
Not available in my region, apparently.
by donclark on 6/21/2025, 2:42:20 PM
This is the feature that I am interested in
- Memory search that connects new info with what you’ve seen before
I’ve been working on a project called EchoStream, and I’d love to share it with you.
As an AI startup founder, the first thing I do every morning is open Hacker News. I look for what other founders are building, check out new GitHub projects, and explore new products. But I started noticing that it was taking me the whole morning just to get through it all.
I began to wonder: could an AI help me read Hacker News more efficiently? Could it summarize everything so I can quickly scan through, and then dive deeper into what interests me? And more than that—could it store what I’ve seen so I can recall it later when it's relevant?
That’s the idea behind EchoStream.
EchoStream is a local AI agent that runs entirely on your iPhone. It includes a built-in thinking model to help you do more with less effort—privately and efficiently, without sending your data anywhere.
Some of its key features:
- Read and understand web pages using AI
- OCR for recognizing and processing text in images
- Automatically record, transcribe, and summarize audio
- An AI-powered news feed with fresh, relevant updates
- Memory search that connects new info with what you’ve seen before
It’s still early, but I’d really appreciate your feedback or thoughts. I built this for myself, and now I want to share it with all of you.
You can have a try here:https://apps.apple.com/us/app/echostream-mind-copilot/id6476... or to the homesite: https://www.echostream-ai.com/
Note: It works well on any iDevice with at least 4GB of RAM.