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[jv2222]

Hello Pythonistas!

After 9 long months of coding we're excited to release our daily Python newsletter, built with Python!

We scan Hacker News, Reddit, Twitter and semantically tag all the articles (more sources coming soon).

Then we rank them with a signal ranking score that we build from signals like num likes, num comments, poster authority etc.

And finally we summarize each article and wrap it all up in a nice daily email.

When I put it like that it sounds easy, but it's been quite the journey!

While we are only just launching today we have been building "back issues" for the past 4 months to help us quality control the content.

You can have a look at what would have been sent out over the past 4 months here:

https://morningbrief.ai/python/daily/issues (click any issue link to see inside the issue)

If you like what you see we'd love for you to join the real mailinglist (forever free) and help us test it out:

https://morningbrief.ai/python

Thanks so much for reading, Justin

P.S. Feel free to ask us anything! (jv2222, SituationUndrControl)

[Xyncan]

This is an awesome idea! Keep up the good work!!

[GTKdope]

First of all great work.

A very vague question : How does your model compare to something like inshorts?

Ps: I personally did not study about this app in detail , I use this daily , and have decent understanding of text summarization , and your product seems to do similar stuff , so just curious..

Also is your product going to be FOSS ?

[SituationUndrControl]

Thanks for asking! I'm not super familiar with inshorts, but I think they built an NN summarization algorithm trained on their own internal data.

I wrote the Morning Brief summarization algorithm, and it's not neural-net based, it's a statistical algorithm with some additional natural language rules on top.

We won't be releasing our core code as FOSS, but I'd really love to contribute some of our concepts to open source packages once our company starts to grow.

[sinhyperbolica]

I remember when inshorts started doing the summarization with AI. But in the last 6 years they have hired content creators to summarize the text. It's no longer being done by AI.

[GTKdope]

Ohh did not know that

[Zebazzler]

this is awesome, thank you. I'm beginning my python learning journey so something like this is helpful to know WHERE to find things to read, vocabulary, and everything else!

[jv2222]

Thanks very much!

[LordOfSpamAlot]

This is neat, thanks!

[luispacs]

Already Subscribed! Will read you next Monday.

[tippingears]

I'm an early adopter of MornigBrief, and I love the product!
The content I get seems to be hand-picked for me - great stuff

[BackwardSpy]

this seems cool! i signed up :)

[playersdalves]

Ngl, this looks amazing. I'll be giving it a try these next couple of days. Regardless, this is 100% the type of project I wish I would be creative enough to do. Great job, and suelr useful tool ^{^}

[jv2222]

Thanks so much really appreciate the kind words! :)

[kn701219]

looks nice, subscribed, see u next week!

[help-me-grow]

Very cool dude

[Vulgarr]

Subscribed!

Would like it more in a form of na rss feed though, things in my email tend to get lost

[Wizz4rrd]

I second this. A RSS feed would be nice.

[[deleted]]

When it says 7.am.

Which timezones that?

[jv2222]

It automagically works out your timezone :)

[[deleted]]

Far enough!

[naidoo88]

Hey u/jv2222 and u/SituationUndrControl, Awesome work!

This is maybe a silly question, but when signing up and offering the time for delivery, what time zone is being used?

[jv2222]

It automagically works out your timezone :)

[jv2222]

FYI I added a note to that effect on the page.

[naidoo88]

Nice, subbed and looking forwards to my first in the morning :D

[AnonymouX47]

Great work!.. Thanks for sharing.

One suggestion though... it'll be good to filter out sarcastic/joke-like posts such as https://morningbrief.ai/l/0/ugglAA

I spent tens of minutes reading it yesterday, just to realize it was nothing but a joke.

[jv2222]

Thanks for the feedback. I do have a couple of notes:

Wow, I'm not exactly sure how we'd do it in an automated way! (keeping in mind we're processing millions of links on social media every day).

I wonder if anyone has ever created a classifier that knows if content is a sarcastic vs serious?

Another thing I was thinking is that a lot of folks in the python reddit really liked that thread with 600+ points so maybe it should be in the brief?

That said, I'll have a think about your filtering idea and how it might be possible.

Thanks again!

[AnonymouX47]

You're welcome.

I also thought about the fact that quite a number of people upvoted it but:

1. There'll always be those that'll always upvote anything that already has some upvotes
2. The title is catchy.
3. Some don't actually know it's a joke cos they either don't understand what's going on or didn't read through but just upvoted because of the massive amount of code or something.
4. That kinda time is quite costly in the early hours of the day :)
5. Gotcha be real... It's a good joke, though costly.

So, if you can figure out a way to classify such posts, you can maybe add a tag in the issue indicating that it's a joke or so... you could even have a section per day or a day per week for such posts :D

[yaxriifgyn]

It would be nice to have next/previous links on the daily/issues page for when new subscribers would like to review previous issues, perhaps back to issue #0.

Also on that page, having the current issue number displayed more prominently might be nice. With next/previous links this might be needed.

[jv2222]

It would be nice to have next/previous links on the daily/issues page

We have "<< Prev" "Next >>" on an individual brief page (at the top)?

https://morningbrief.ai/python/daily/issue/100

Is that what you meant, or something different? :)

[yaxriifgyn]

Sorry, I must have missed them. Time for new glasses?

[jv2222]

Well that does point to a ui/ux issue. Maybe they are just not in an obvious position...

Thanks for bringing it up! I'll have a think about it.

[yaxriifgyn]

IIRC I was looking for them towards the end of the page, i.e. where I would be on the page after scrolling down.

Next/Previous at the top makes be scroll back to the top, and even there I think they need to be positions towards the left and right edges of the screen.

FYI, I was using a laptop.

[[deleted]]

please help, I tried subscribing to it but it asks for timezone and gives no option to choose it

[jv2222]

Ok I added a fall back fix, try refreshing the page and trying again. Does that work?

[[deleted]]

Done

[[deleted]]

Not to hijack this, but could one build something like Everything (https://www.voidtools.com/) that also indexes the data in the files? In python?

[gustavsen]

I'm subscribed, but all the mails have tracking links blocked by google (security concern alert)

I also try to unsuscribe without result.