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Re: Show HN: Attabit – AI powered news

#31

Post by crestfallen »

This is really cool. Thanks for making it! I think the factual (not calling it neutral) POV is the correct one. The length of the text is good for the summary; not too little but not too much either. Though I do agree with other commenters that a "go deeper" type action could be neat. The presentation works for me.

A profile of some kind could be nice for down the road. What kind of news stories do you want to see?

One thing most news is AWFUL at is the timeline of the topic in an easy digestible way. Let's say it's the conflict in the middle east. Sure, here's the new story from today. Most outlets may put a link or two to a related story, but other than the relation, there's not much more context to it.

Within the story block — or as a separate section or something? — it would be cool to have almost like a "timeline" summary view. Here's how this thing/topic started and changed and here's how we got to where we are today. Maybe that's an overall summary of several stories. Maybe it's a general overview with links to all the specific stories over time. I'm not sure. But it keeps getting updated with additional news. Tough problem to solve I think.

That would be an absolutely killer feature, IMO. It would add some much needed context to the news bites today, where it can be awfully easy to forget there's more to it than this one article.

Re: Show HN: Attabit – AI powered news

#32

Post by gordondavidf »

crestfallen wrote: post #31

This is really cool. Thanks for making it! I think the factual (not calling it neutral) POV is the correct one. The length of the text is good for the summary; not too little but not too much either. Though I do agree with other commenters that a "go deeper" type action could be neat. The presentation works for me. A profile of some kind could be nice for down the road. What kind of news stories do you want to see? O…

Thanks for checking it out and commenting!

I 100% agree with this and have been thinking of how it can be solved. I think embeddings open a new opportunity to get this off the ground. Worried it will include too much noise by default (Does every Elon story in chronological order come up with the latest Tesla news? Maybe? Maybe only if the target of the article is Tesla?)

You're right news is bad at this, its too hard without new tools to solve. This is a great feature request. I'll get to work. Thanks again.

Re: Show HN: Attabit – AI powered news

#35

Post by dr_kiszonka »

It looks nice, but the news, while possibly factual, is very depressing. I saw something about airstrikes, powerful storms, decapitation, and the death of a famous actor. Maybe you could balance the stories a bit?

(I would be interested in a site with factual, interesting stories about non-ephemeral and not always depressing issues and trends.)

Re: Show HN: Attabit – AI powered news

#36

Post by secondary_op »

> searches for today's top news, creates article summaries

> What you get is a news site that heavily respects your time.

> No spin or clickbait -- just the facts of what's happening.

> February 03 Yesterday - CNN - US Conducts Retaliatory Airstrikes on Iranian-Backed Militias in Iraq and Syria

This is completely delusional. What I see here is hand picked stream of sources comprised of Journalism and Media Industrial Complex networks of large conglomerates. What they do ? Spin, clickbait, lie, and propaganda machines on payroll of US elites. So you slap LLM on top of this to synthesize neutral garbage from garbage and call this job done ?

> going beyond just aggregation and moving on to custom reporting.

To custom garbage bubble.

Re: Show HN: Attabit – AI powered news

#37

Post by gordondavidf »

dr_kiszonka wrote: post #35

It looks nice, but the news, while possibly factual, is very depressing. I saw something about airstrikes, powerful storms, decapitation, and the death of a famous actor. Maybe you could balance the stories a bit? (I would be interested in a site with factual, interesting stories about non-ephemeral and not always depressing issues and trends.)

Thanks for checking it out and commenting. Its been a rough news day or two on the site unfortunately. This is definitely something I'm thinking about. Best idea I have at the moment (which is implemented) is to cover great science/tech advances as well. That's kinda the most positive high impact news out there.

If you have any ideas on where to find more positive need-to-know news, I'm definitely all ears.

Re: Show HN: Attabit – AI powered news

#38

Post by gordondavidf »

secondary_op wrote: post #36

> searches for today's top news, creates article summaries > What you get is a news site that heavily respects your time. > No spin or clickbait -- just the facts of what's happening. > February 03 Yesterday - CNN - US Conducts Retaliatory Airstrikes on Iranian-Backed Militias in Iraq and Syria This is completely delusional. What I see here is hand picked stream of sources comprised of Journalism and Media Industrial…

This is a v1 for friends and family -- its not done. If you think those news services are 'propaganda machines on payroll of US elites' can you please get to work building an alternative? Thanks.

Re: Show HN: Attabit – AI powered news

#40

Post by shouche »

I liked the idea. A good start to a promising app. It does need some features to make it useful and some other improvement ts on UX. People have listed others, but I would like a filter or search at least for starters. Also, progressive disclosure on the news details.

On the cost side, you could try Gemini Pro, currently free with usage limitations. But since the content is saved, it should be fine.

How are you sourcing news and deciding what news to keep? Search engine or some kind of feedback? Would like more details here.

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