GitHub - ivanyu/hn-tldr-extension: A bring-your-own-key browser extension for summarizing Hacker News articles with LLMs
Dec 12, 2024 - github.com
The article discusses a browser extension designed to summarize Hacker News articles using OpenAI and Anthropic language models. Users can integrate their own API keys to enable the extension, which adds summarize buttons to both the Hacker News front page and individual article pages. The extension ensures security by storing API keys in the browser's storage and syncing them across devices if configured, only sending them to the language model providers.
The development section provides instructions for starting development, including loading the extension into Firefox for a development build and preparing a production build. The project is open-source and licensed under the GPL-3.0 license, with further details available in the LICENSE file.
Key takeaways:
A browser extension is available for summarizing Hacker News articles using OpenAI and Anthropic LLMs.
The extension adds summarize buttons to the Hacker News front page and article pages.
Users need to provide their own Anthropic or OpenAI API key, which is stored securely in the browser's storage.
The project is licensed under the GPL-3.0 license.
