> Universal Summarizer is a tool developed by Kagi that is able to quickly and accurately summarize articles, videos, and other texts. It is able to pick out unique and interesting details from the text, such as Ratz having a prosthetic arm in the bar in the novel Catch 22. It is also able to summarize technical documentation and Moby Dick, as well as provide a summary of the themes in Walden. It is able to summarize videos as well, and is a useful tool for developers to familiarize themselves with academic papers. It is also able to provide summaries in multiple languages, and is able to detect jokes and humorous elements in the text. It is an impressive tool that is sure to be a hit with developers and researchers alike.
Not sure what to make of its summary of Moby Dick (as presented in the Project Gutenberg text version) -- https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum?url=https://www.gutenberg.org/f.... The summary is full of platitudes. I'm wondering how they were generated. Did they actually arise directly from the text itself or from outside commentary of Moby Dick that Kagi had ingested?
> The story follows the adventures of a whaling crew led by Captain Ahab, who is obsessed with hunting down a white whale named Moby Dick. The crew includes Queequeg, a harpooner from a distant island, and Starbuck, the first mate. Along the way, they encounter many dangers, including storms, sea monsters, and the wrath of Moby Dick himself. The story is a meditation on the power of nature, the dangers of obsession, and the importance of friendship and loyalty. The message of the story is that even in the face of great danger, it is possible to find courage and strength in friendship and loyalty.
> Moby-Dick is a novel by Herman Melville about the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod, for revenge on the white sperm whale Moby Dick, which crippled him on the ship's previous voyage. The novel follows Ishmael, a sailor on the Pequod, as he narrates the story of Ahab's monomaniacal pursuit of Moby Dick. Along the way, Ishmael and his fellow crew members encounter a variety of characters and situations, including the mysterious Fedallah, a harpooner who prophesies Ahab's death; Pip, a young African American cabin-boy who jumps in panic from Stubb's whale boat; and the Delight, a whaling ship that is badly damaged and with five of her crew left dead by Moby Dick. The novel also contains a variety of themes, including the nature of evil, the power of fate, and the search for identity. Ultimately, the novel suggests that while revenge may be a powerful motivator, it can also lead to destruction and death.
> A new study reveals how unconscious bias leads us to neglect negative externalities of driving. You may call it ‘car brain,’ but this research team calls it ‘motornormativity.’
Thanks for providing the detailed comparison among the many password managers. I think it's more accurate to describe 1Password's CLI as "yes" rather than "yes?poor" and submitted a PR for consideration: https://github.com/Soft-wa-re/password-manager-comparer/pull...
I submitted this article because I didn't know about the new(?) type of fraud around gift cards. From the article:
> Walmart's gift cards are worthless until customers load them with cash. Once loaded, the company requires shoppers to input a card's hidden security code when using it to make purchases online, but not at self-checkout.
> Wilson says a fraudster could easily take photos of a bunch of the cards' bar codes at Walmart, and then try to buy goods with them at self-checkout at a later date — in the hopes the cards have since been loaded with cash.
> "It's sort of, like, egregious," he said. "All the cards in Walmart are on bulk display. The bar codes are in plain sight."
Our software is for communities of all kinds. Instead of outsourcing the verification to LinkedIn or Twitter, who fail at it, you can at least have smaller communities where you met everyone and have one degree of separation.
The podcast episode struck me (as someone with a superficial understanding of crypto) as a devastating critique of crypto. This episode is a companion to an episode of the Ezra Klein Show featuring Katie Haun (partner, a16z), who is also a crypto booster: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/15/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...
I'm hoping that this episode attract comments in the HN community.
Very interesting. I'd love a way to download a highlighted version of the PDF that I fed to Tuchu.
I uploaded a PDF version of a Wikipedia article to see what was selected, and at a quick glance, it's not obvious to me that the most important parts of the article have been highlighted. On the other hand, it's not obvious that trivial parts have been selected either -- leaving me intrigued to look further.
I made a similar site to Tuchu a while ago that attaches the highlights to the pdf: https://anishthite.github.io/ailight/. It's a bit slow though, I've been trying to get it to run faster.
