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Hacker News on Your Wall
32" e-ink screen with generated art based on tech headlines
Excited to debut on Product Hunt: Project E Ink's 32" screen transforms Hacker News headlines into AI art every four hours. It's a serene window into the pulse of the tech community on your wall
Some background on the backend for those who are interested. It's built on Laravel and hosted in a Google Cloud Run container and has the following workflow for content aggregation and presentation:
Step 1: Every four hours, our scheduler fetches the top stories from Hacker News.
Step 2: For the top story, we combine the title of the post with a specific prompt ("high-contrast black-and-white digital illustration suitable for an eInk display, digital art, trending on ArtStation") and pass this to a Google Cloud Function. This function interacts with the Stability AI REST API to generate a base64 encoded image. The result? A stunning visual that's perfect for an E Ink display.
Step 3: We then extract the plain text from the story's URL and feed it to the GPT-3.5-turbo-16k model with a system prompt tailored for hacker-centric insights: "Summarize the key points in the following text in max 3 sentences as if you're the author."
Step 4: Both the generated image and the summarized metadata are stored separately in a Cloud Storage Bucket. This allows us not only to display them together on screen.
Let me know if you have any questions or feature requests!
Ooh this is dope! Remember how back in the day people would frame newspapers for the day a baby was born? I feel like this would be cool for that
Art for the day someone is born turned into a canvas or something
I wish this was a real newspaper and not an art piece. If it was cheaper than an actual newspaper at subs, I would stick it on the wall and read it while drinking coffee!
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