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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 mh- »

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…

That's very cool, but I lack the 500+ total edits on Wikipedia to qualify.

My first edit was 20 years ago this month and at my current pace I'll be able to access that in another 588 years.

Is there some other way to pay [Wikipedia/WMF] for access to that bundle?

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

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Post by mh- »

jayknight wrote: post #12

I've wanted a way to listen to a local radio stations broadcast--including ads and dj banter--from this day X years ago.

That would be really fun. Unfortunately, I'd be surprised if the recordings still exist from the pre-"it's all digital" era, which is more recent than most people would think.

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

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Post by samdoesnothing »

V__ wrote: post #28
JuniperMesos wrote: post #27

> For example, on Oct 7, 1985, Palestinian hijackers took over the cruise ship Achille Lauro. Reading this on a delay in 2025, the story unfolded over weeks: first they threw an American in a wheelchair overboard, then US fighter jets forced the escape plane to land, leading to a military standoff between US Navy SEALs and the Italian Air Force. Unbelievably, the US backed down, but the later diplomatic fallout led t…

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.

I think it varies. I've seen everything from people simply caring about the wellbeing of Palestinian civilians to rabid Hamas supporters and everything in between. I think it's easy to get stuck in an environment where you mostly see views that align with your own or are the complete opposite (with a corresponding dunk) and it's easy to get rage baited.

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

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Post by jonathanstark »

andix wrote: post #8
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?

Copyright issues will stop this soon. 40 year old newspaper articles aren't public domain yet in most countries. A gray area could be a newspaper that went out of business decades ago. Or maybe some government run newspaper that was public domain in the first place.

As OP said, these aren't the newspaper articles. They're AI generated stories based off the facts of the events.

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

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Post by samdoesnothing »

clicks on home page

> FBI Agents, White Supremacist Leader Engage in Deadly Standoff

> Police Fire on Black Protesters in Pretoria Suburb; Deaths Reported

> Something about Jewish people

> Communism

I guess the more things change, the more they stay the same eh.

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

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Post by jonathanstark »

nutjob2 wrote: post #20

I like this because I can read the newspapers of my youth, when I couldn't read international papers like a can today, not that I read any papers. Fun fact: I emigrated on the Achille Lauro , half way around the world, over a decade before it was hijacked.

Wow, that's wild

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

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Post by inglor_cz »

TrevorFSmith wrote: post #26
treetalker wrote: post #24

“To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers.” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

A similar result can be found by reading coverage of events you witnessed or topics you know well.

Reading almost any mass media article on encryption makes me want to scream.

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

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Post by qnleigh »

I've always wanted a news source with a 4 week delay. This would filter out so much of the noise: rage bait articles about what a politician said, articles about what -may- happen that just promote doomscrolling... Wikipedia sort of does this, but you have to know which articles to look at (though on the upside, you get a lot more historical context).

If something isn't worth knowing about one month later, it probably wasn't news in the first place.

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