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Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay

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Re: Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay

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Post by narrator »

I've read political books from the 70s. Nothing has changed at all in politics since then. Just what was going on in San Francisco at the time took over the whole country.

The last big change was the death of Stalin. He was a genuine threat to the world order being so incredibly capable and ruthless. After that things settled back into the current long slide to "the end of history." Xi's China seems to be opening up a new era of great power conflicts.

The Israelis and the Palestinians have been doing awful shit to each other for 80 years. All the arguments are the same as 50 years ago. Little has changed. Boring.

Re: Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay

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Post by tylervigen »

culi wrote: post #7
jonplackett wrote: post #3

> Secretary Rejects Emergency Antibiotics Ban in Animal Feed Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret M. Heckler on Wednesday refused to impose an emergency ban on the use of antibiotics in animal feed. Mrs. Heckler denied a petition filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), which had sought to shorten the process by asking the secretary to declare an 'imminent hazard' to public health. Declaring an…

It's funny that this site's tagline is "Exactly 40 years back, these felt huge. See how they landed with time." but so many of these stories are still just as alarming. If anything it often feels like we should've cared more. At the very least done more

Indeed, and I think this is a diredt result of OP's pipeline. Part of the workflow involves asking an LLM to prioritize articles that readers in 2025 will find interesting in hindsight.

Re: Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay

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Post by is_true »

culi wrote: post #6
hu3 wrote: post #2

> The system ingests raw newspaper scans and uses a multi-step LLM pipeline to generate the daily edition This is neat! But I wonder about longevity of the project if it relies on scanning newspapers. Do you have an endless suply? Perhaps there is some digital archive you could use?

My Wikipedia Library membership gives me access to some cool resources that might be of interest: - Arcanum is the largest and continuously expanding digital periodical database from Eastern Europe, which contains scientific and specialized journals, encyclopaedias, weekly and daily newspapers and more - NewspaperARCHIVE.com is an online database of digitized newspapers, with over 2 billion news articles; coverage ex…

NewspaperARCHIVE.com's cloudflare configuration is a bit paranoid

Re: Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay

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Post by sylens »

komali2 wrote: post #87

I feel like the implication here is "see, it's not so bad, the world didn't end, not a big deal!" But plenty of these articles describe small events that absolutely contributed to world changing, and often world degrading, things. For better or worse the collapse of the Soviet Union completely changed the world and I've heard compelling arguments this had consequences as faraway as the weakening of Unions in America…

Yeah like one of the top articles today is Reagan arguing for tax reform, the spark that kicked off the insane inequality we deal with today.

Re: Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay

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Post by troupo »

dmurray wrote: post #136
tptacek wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hamas was an aspiring near-peer military force with a conventional order of battle and a multilayered supply chain. It obviously was not "militants with handguns". (It hasn't been militarily meaningful for over 18 months; you could call it that today! If what you are, principally, is angry about war crimes in Gaza, you have ample evidence to muster without telling fairy tales about what the situation was in 2023.) Yo…

> Hamas was an aspiring near-peer military force This is beyond ridiculous. Israel is a nuclear-armed regional power with tanks, a modern navy, a state of the art air force, the best missile defence system in the world, and one of the best counterintelligence operations. It can project force thousands of kilometres away into Iran. Hamas is none of that. Even on sheer manpower, sources from 2023 put Hamas at 3 to 30 t…

> they would have been successful missile attacks on Tel Aviv

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In January 2008 the border between Gaza and Egypt was breached by Hamas. It allowed them to bring in Russian and Iranian-made rockets with a larger range. In the first half of 2008, the number of attacks rose sharply, consistently totaling several hundred per month. In addition, Ashkelon was hit many times during this period by Grad rockets.

...

In 2012, Jerusalem and Israel's commercial center Tel Aviv were targeted with locally made "M-75" and Iranian Fajr-5 rockets, respectively, and in July 2014, the northern city of Haifa was targeted for the first time

--- end quote ---

> Perhaps "small arms" or "light weapons" would be more precise than "handguns"

Where "light weapons" are literally thousands of rocket launches against various targets in Israel.

Iron Dome exists due to "small lightly equipped militia" in Palestine.

Re: Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay

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Post by com »

I opened this, only to be confronted by an article about the investigation into the downing of Air India flight 182, a terrorist attack that killed hundreds of people, including my childhood neighbour friends Brinda and Arti and their dad, Vishnu.

Forty years. What lives they could have led, people they would have loved and been loved by. For their family, so many years of grief.

Thank you for this project.

Re: Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay

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Post by V__ »

almosthere wrote: post #106
V__ wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe this is just my bubble, but the messaging I get is that Israel should stop murdering Palestinian civilians and not that Hamas is somehow righteous in their actions.

Maybe Hamas should also stop killing them too https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7okhHGRgfpQ

I mean obviously yes.

Re: Show HN: Forty.News – Daily news, but on a 40-year delay

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Post by crossroadsguy »

Weird to see two wildly different news related to India.

One about a famous Indian charlatan (a.k.a "guru"; the guru industry is most flourishing these days):

> Rajneesh Pleads Guilty to Sham Marriages, to Leave U.S. Immediately

> Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh pleaded guilty Thursday to arranging sham marriages, agreeing to leave the United States immediately. In a plea bargain, Rajneesh received a suspended 10-year prison sentence and was fined $300,000, which includes $140,000 in prosecution costs.

and another about a well known (I guess across the world?) plane crash:

> Explosion Implicated in Air-India Jumbo Jet Crash

> India's director of air safety announced that an explosion in the cargo hold apparently caused the crash of an Air-India Jumbo jet last June, killing all 329 people aboard the flight from Canada to Bombay.

Note: this ^ was unseated as the deadliest act of aviation terrorism until 9/11 decades later.

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