It might not be the digest you asked for, but it's the summary we deserve: http://n-gate.com/hackernews/2017/07/31/0/

I am exhausted just imagining that this bucko is still at this project. It's like a perpetual motion machine of self-hatred.

Irony is only irony if it is not greater than 73% of your life, according to scientists. This person long ago passed that threshold.

You're assuming they actually read the threads. It would be easier, and yield the same results, to merely read the headline, and write based on that. In fact, I'm sure a simple script could cover the majority of cases, leaving them to only need to write for the odd one their script can't cover.

Knowing them, I don't think that's what they do tho.

Yeah, they definitely read the threads. This is some pinpoint-accuracy hate and idiocy.

>In fact, I'm sure a simple script could cover the majority of cases

I'm sure you could get some funding to provide that as a service.

well I find it hard to think that website encompasses more than 10% of his/her life.

This project definitely tells more about the author than about the HN community.

I just discovered it, and I wouldn't have clicked on the link but the negative comments got me into it.

I have been laughing out loud for the past hour.

It warms my heart that this is still going strong.

This makes me unreasonably happy.

Wow, you just saved me like 19 hours a week.

n-gate is pure gold

There was a community-driven project for exactly this. It was hosted on http://tldr.io. There was a browser extension showing you the summary of an article when you visited it and you could contribute your own summaries. And I started creating a Windows Store app (back in the time of Windows 8.0) for browsing all TL;DRs.

But sadly, the project has been discontinued for a couple of years already. I think it lacked incentives for summary writers (for example micro payments from summary readers) and also a monetarization model for the project creators.

The code is still on GitHub: https://github.com/tldrio

I thought about contacting them to get the web service running again on some cheap AWS VM or so, but haven't done it yet.