Show HN: HomeBrew HN – generate personal context for content ranking
8 azath92 2 7/3/2025, 12:27:51 PM hackernews.coffee ↗
TLDR: Build a quick HN profile to see how little context LLMs need to personalise your feed. Rate 30 posts once, get a permanent ranked homepage you can return to.
Our goal was to build a tool that allowed us to test a range of "personal contexts" on a very focused everyday use case for us, reading HN!
We are exploring use of personal context with LLMs, specifically what kind of data, how much, and with how much additional effort on the user’s part was needed to get decent results. The test tool was a bit of fun on its own so we re-skinned it and decided to post it here.
First time posting anything on HN but folks at work encouraged me to drop a link. Keen on feedback or other interesting projects thinking about bootstrapping personal context for LLM workflows!
I had an expectation that it'd go through posts and give me stuff i'd be interested in. Like here's 25 posts that would be interesting?
Only frontpage? no second page? No sort by new, which is my preferred.
When weve been testing things, we often find that if there wasnt a great match between the options when picking preferences, and whats currently on the front page, that the context it generates will result in a lot of skips (understandably, but not great UX). Right now can try regenerating your context (and going through the process again), or manually editing it to get to different results.
Theres also some work for us to better select the options when picking preferences, or ensuring we always surface some deep dives.
Applying the same process to more pages, or bubling up content from multiple pages, or new is a great idea. cool to hear thats where you would look.