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Re: Show HN: Telescope, a news reader app

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Post by mrmondo »

oddlyaromatic wrote: post #31
neilellis wrote: post #20

When you get chance please wrap it is a desktop app, it's the sort of app I'd keep running like Tweetbot. Oh and well done! A competitor to Google News is great. The main problem I have with Google News is that it is always a few steps behind Twitter. It's really good if you're out of the loop, but behind the times if you're tracking a new story.

Does Nativefier help you? https://github.com/jiahaog/Nativefier

I personally think that’s helping the problem of the infestation of poor performing JavaScript sites making their way onto the desktop, often they’re so bad it’s more sensible to open those sites in a Firefox / Safari window.

Re: Show HN: Telescope, a news reader app

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Post by meteor333 »

Xeoncross wrote: post #35

Over 50% of the posts are Trump. I would really like to see someone make an app that focuses on filtering through the click-bait articles we're fed to actually break news into important events and subjects. I guess I don't consider "most shares" a good way to rank. Bush, Obama, then Trump always are at the top unless some other celebrity does something big. Looks really nice, good job!

Thank you. Unfortunately, thats what is trending currently. I get your point though. Im thinking of adding an ability to filter by keyword or category. Also I want to explore if I can group the same news to avoid echos, such as iphone X launch or something.

Re: Show HN: Telescope, a news reader app

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Post by meteor333 »

neilellis wrote: post #20

When you get chance please wrap it is a desktop app, it's the sort of app I'd keep running like Tweetbot. Oh and well done! A competitor to Google News is great. The main problem I have with Google News is that it is always a few steps behind Twitter. It's really good if you're out of the loop, but behind the times if you're tracking a new story.

Thank you! Will do this soon

Re: Show HN: Telescope, a news reader app

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Post by meteor333 »

oddlyaromatic wrote: post #31
neilellis wrote: post #20

When you get chance please wrap it is a desktop app, it's the sort of app I'd keep running like Tweetbot. Oh and well done! A competitor to Google News is great. The main problem I have with Google News is that it is always a few steps behind Twitter. It's really good if you're out of the loop, but behind the times if you're tracking a new story.

Does Nativefier help you? https://github.com/jiahaog/Nativefier

Super helpful. This will help me ship it sooner rather than thinking electron or something.

Re: Show HN: Telescope, a news reader app

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Post by meteor333 »

adamrezich wrote: post #25
yodon wrote: post #6

Two news sources that I'd like to see added are memeorandum.com (the best algorithmicly generated news feed I've found) and drudgereport.com (whose politics I disagree with but it's a hugely influential site and I try to avoid trapping myself in a bubble). I haven't found a news reader type app that handles those two sites, so I find myself wasting huge amounts of time hitting those two pages and trying to skim their…

Before I scroll down, every story on the page is similar perspectives on the same event (Trump at the UN), and the top story is posted by Shareblue. Maybe this is a fluke, but it's a terrible first impression for me as a user, and I won't be checking it again anytime soon.

Sorry about that. Thats what is trending at this point. Im looking into ways to group similar news to avoid these echos

Re: Show HN: Telescope, a news reader app

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Post by Toast_ »

fireworks10 wrote: post #17

Awesome. Curious, what are you using to scrape sources, and for social counts?

Not OP, but I'm doing something similar with huginn [0]; I use it to scrape deals and sent POST requests to an Azure ml web service, which is output as RSS.

[0]: https://github.com/huginn/huginn

Re: Show HN: Telescope, a news reader app

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Post by oddlyaromatic »

meteor333 wrote: post #44
oddlyaromatic wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does Nativefier help you? https://github.com/jiahaog/Nativefier

Super helpful. This will help me ship it sooner rather than thinking electron or something.

I'd love to know how it goes, I haven't actually tried it yet. Not sure how one would go about "releasing" the exported file.

Re: Show HN: Telescope, a news reader app

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Post by aaronhoffman »

meteor333 wrote: post #11
yodon wrote: post #6

Two news sources that I'd like to see added are memeorandum.com (the best algorithmicly generated news feed I've found) and drudgereport.com (whose politics I disagree with but it's a hugely influential site and I try to avoid trapping myself in a bubble). I haven't found a news reader type app that handles those two sites, so I find myself wasting huge amounts of time hitting those two pages and trying to skim their…

Looks like both are news aggregators themselves. It kind of makes it tricky. Let me look into it.

realclearpolitics.com would be another good source.

re: these being difficult because they are aggregators, could you just scrape the sites to find what they are linking to, then perform the same "social share is rank" logic to them?

newswhip.com is a site that does something similar, but it's very expensive. I would love an alternative!

I read many different sources, but I'm always curious what the "average" person is reading. What was the most shared/read article yesterday/last week, etc.

Re: Show HN: Telescope, a news reader app

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Post by oddlyaromatic »

mrmondo wrote: post #41
oddlyaromatic wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does Nativefier help you? https://github.com/jiahaog/Nativefier

I personally think that’s helping the problem of the infestation of poor performing JavaScript sites making their way onto the desktop, often they’re so bad it’s more sensible to open those sites in a Firefox / Safari window.

I guess it comes down to what the user prioritizes, but I think it's good to have the option of running something on the desktop if I feel like it.
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