How I would've attacked:
For the example of the sun rising, Hume in the argument over how the sun will rise would attack by showing how humans are unjustified in making predictions of the future based on past occurrences.
He assumes that sun will rise every day, like any other day, but there is no basis of actual prove to lead to this conclusion.
By claiming that the sun will rise tomorrow according to Hume he neither agrees nor disagrees. Hume illustrates that “the contrary of every matter of fact is still possible, because it can never imply a contradiction and is conceived by the mind with the same facility and distinctness as if ever so conformable to reality”.
Just because the sun has risen in the past that we can lead to this possibility. Hume felt that all reasoning concerning matter of fact seemed to be founded on the relation between cause and effect.
Conclusion: "You see light, you feel heat". The sun will not likely rise due to uncertainty and little prove.
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