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i4 March · 08:31

You write down what you thought.

Press o. Give it stars, file it in a collection, and keep the sentence you would otherwise have said out loud and lost.

  1. o opens the drawer
  2. ★ one to five
  3. # a collection is a tag
iithe year between

Last year you read hundreds of things. Name three.

Reading was never the hard part. Hermes keeps the other half: what you made of it, in your own words.

iiithe next March

A search hands it back in your words.

The Library searches titles, authors and your notes at once. Type “agent” a year later and the article comes back with the sentence you wrote about it.

next · in development

Everything you saved, wrote and read, in one space.

Hermes is getting a vector store of the posts you saved, your own opinions and the Hacker News comments you read, so what you kept can be found by what it means and not only by the words in it. This is a drawing of how that space is meant to look, made from invented demo items.

Ask the space

TL;DR · Mara Lindqvist

Prompt injection is unsolved: any system that concatenates untrusted text with its own instructions inherits the vulnerability.

Your opinion

The clearest statement yet of why this is architectural. Quarantine the model that reads untrusted text, and never give it a tool.

HN comment · kestrel_

The dual-model pattern only works if the quarantined side can never emit anything the privileged side treats as instructions.

Hacker News

Somebody already read the comments.

When an article you follow has a Hacker News thread, Hermes reads it and tells you what the commenters agree on and what they are arguing about.

The lens holds the rest: front, best, ask, show and new, the thread beside the list, and a mark on every story already in your feeds. Press h from anywhere.

Also in the box

Colophon.

Keys
1 2 3 4 for Inbox, Read Later, Starred and Library. h for Hacker News, p for the essays, s to star, l to read later, o for your take, a to listen, ⌘K for everything else.
Read aloud
Any article, its TL;DR or a whole Hacker News thread, read to you in your own voice, cloned from a few seconds of you reading. In English and Spanish, each with its own accent.
Essays
The Paul Graham archive, every essay as an article you can star, rate and file, with its Hacker News threads attached.
Collections
A tag becomes a shelf in the sidebar. Articles, saved Hacker News stories and essays sit on it together.
Feed health
A feed that stops answering gets a red dot and a line in the sidebar. What it already delivered stays put.
Themes
Light paper, warm dark, and a sepia for long evenings.
Type
Newsreader for prose, Geist for the interface, Geist Mono for anything you might transcribe.

FAQ

The usual questions.

Can I bring my subscriptions with me?

Yes. Import the OPML from the reader you use now, or paste a plain list of feed URLs. Folders come across with them, and the feeds fill in while you start reading.

How do I get an account?

Registration asks for an invite code. Every member has one on their Settings page to pass along, and with a code in hand the account takes about a minute.

What does the AI do, and can I ignore it?

It writes a TL;DR of each article from the full text, and a summary of the Hacker News thread when there is one. It never rewrites the piece. The TL;DR folds away with one click, and without it Hermes is a fast reader that answers to the keyboard.

Who can see my ratings and notes?

Nobody else. Ratings, collections and notes belong to your account. There is no public profile and no shared timeline.

Will it search by meaning?

Not yet. It is the next thing being built.

What does it cost?

Nothing. There is no paid tier and no plan to add one.

The next thing you read
is worth keeping.

Bring your feeds, read one article properly, and write down what you made of it. It pays off the first time you search.

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