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Ask HN: What good alteratives are there to Google News?

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Re: Ask HN: What good alteratives are there to Google News?

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https://legiblenews.com/ It scrapes headlines from Wikipedia once per day at 8p PST. It's encrypted. There's no ads. It loads fast, as-in one request. Your activity isn't logged. I built this because I got tired of all the shitty tricks news websites play: obnoxious ads, "breaking news", auto-play videos, pumping megabytes of crap into your browser, lack of privacy, and lack of citations. Legible news is boring. It's…

Stunning. Thank you, very much.

Re: Ask HN: What good alteratives are there to Google News?

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I have been working on a news aggregator site- https://news.r1b.solutions/ github- https://github.com/r1b/news-wires

FYI - this is my actual HN account. It seems that one of my..fans has created another :) Happy to answer any questions.

Very nice. Bookmarked.

Re: Ask HN: What good alteratives are there to Google News?

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I'll throw a vote out for the New York Times daily briefing: The sample looks like https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/briefing/north-korea-cnn-... It is exactly what it sounds like—a quick daily briefing of the most important things that have happened over night—kinda as if you're the President. There is a URL that you don't need to update each day to hit, but for the life of me I can't remember it at the moment.

Similar in spirit is the Economist Espresso. I think there are five paragraph-long articles on various things, followed by maybe a dozen or so sentence-long summaries of what happened the previous day. It tends to cover politics throughout the week, business and finance on Friday, and arts on Saturday.

Re: Ask HN: What good alteratives are there to Google News?

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https://legiblenews.com/ It scrapes headlines from Wikipedia once per day at 8p PST. It's encrypted. There's no ads. It loads fast, as-in one request. Your activity isn't logged. I built this because I got tired of all the shitty tricks news websites play: obnoxious ads, "breaking news", auto-play videos, pumping megabytes of crap into your browser, lack of privacy, and lack of citations. Legible news is boring. It's…

Is the code open source ? I live in Europe, and it would be great if, with the same product, we could choose the time at which we want the news to be delivered, and the language in which we want it delivered.

Re: Ask HN: What good alteratives are there to Google News?

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I'll throw a vote out for the New York Times daily briefing: The sample looks like https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/briefing/north-korea-cnn-... It is exactly what it sounds like—a quick daily briefing of the most important things that have happened over night—kinda as if you're the President. There is a URL that you don't need to update each day to hit, but for the life of me I can't remember it at the moment.

https://www.nytimes.com/series/us-morning-briefing

Re: Ask HN: What good alteratives are there to Google News?

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https://legiblenews.com/ It scrapes headlines from Wikipedia once per day at 8p PST. It's encrypted. There's no ads. It loads fast, as-in one request. Your activity isn't logged. I built this because I got tired of all the shitty tricks news websites play: obnoxious ads, "breaking news", auto-play videos, pumping megabytes of crap into your browser, lack of privacy, and lack of citations. Legible news is boring. It's…

Is the code open source ? I live in Europe, and it would be great if, with the same product, we could choose the time at which we want the news to be delivered, and the language in which we want it delivered.

I made a similar one in german. At the bottom is a link to the GitHub repo. It relies on Cron and Neocities.
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