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Show HN "Selbstbild" lets you feed your own HN comments to an LLM

Hacker NewsJul 5, 2026 · 7d ago

Selbstbild is a BYOK (bring your own key) web app — you plug in your own Anthropic or key and it summarizes and assesses your public Hacker News comments. You can pick a high-end model like Fable 5, though that runs on your own API bill.

The creator explains they've long used their own HN comments as a personal needle-in-haystack test: since they know their own somewhat quirky, occasionally confusing writing style well, reading back a model's summary is a quick way to gauge how well a newly released model actually understands nuanced text. Lately, they note, retrieval in has become robust enough that the interesting question has shifted away from simple retrieval accuracy.

Key points

  • Selbstbild is a BYOK web app that summarizes and assesses your public HN comment history using an LLM.
  • Supports high-end models like Fable 5, but you pay API costs via your own key.
  • The creator has long used their own comments as a personal retrieval test.
  • They note ' handling has recently become quite robust.

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