Hacker Times is a mashup of Hacker News, Digital Newspaper Interface, Reader Systems (think Pocket, Safari Reader, Instapaper etc.), and LLMs (Large Language Models).
Hacker Times is built with Next.js, hosted on Vercel, and powered by OpenAI's GPT-4o-mini model for generating summaries. When available, summary images are pulled from OpenGraph metadata; otherwise, keywords are extracted from the article content using an LLM and used to search Pexels for relevant imagery. Content is parsed based on the article's URL: GitHub repositories use the GitHub API to retrieve their README.md, while other article-like pages are displayed in a reader-friendly interface. If content cannot be parsed, users are redirected to the original source.