About Smart News
A custom Hacker News frontend that uses AI to tag and group stories by topic, so you can follow the things you care about. Add your interests for a personal front page.
Team
Changelog
- September 2026
A fresh design with a dark mode, plus new features: new, best, show, ask and jobs feeds, "new since your last visit" badges, a mute list, save for later, keyboard shortcuts (press ?) and RSS feeds for every topic.
- December 2024
Update to Astro 5.
- July 12th 2024
Released the first version of the Interests page where you can add your interests and see the top articles for each interest. See the Show HN: Personalized Hackernews front page (using Astro, Svelte) post.
- July 10th 2024
Added a personal history, stored in the browser only. Clicking on links automatically adds the article to the history.
- July 2024
We identify topics in the Hackernews post titles and show a ranking of the most popular topics. Related topics are calculated with the cf4j recommender library.
- June 2024
First release, using a simple keyword-based approach: each article is tagged with keywords calculated from its title with the llama3 model.
Roadmap: a more advanced ranking that also takes the linked content and the comments into account, plus keyword filters and a personal keyword profile for recommendations.