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

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Nothorized wrote: post #57
bradgessler wrote: post #39

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.

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

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Post by kxyvr »

bradgessler wrote: post #39

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…

Thanks for putting that up! Have any interest in piping that page into an RSS document?

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

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Post by kehers »

mi_lk wrote: post #55
kehers wrote: post #47

If Twitter is your thing, see https://thefeed.press . Curates news links shared by your friends on Twitter

What's the difference between this and nuzzel?

For the most part, it is that the articles are extracted (Pocket/Instapaper style) for easy read.

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

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Post by Aeolun »

niko001 wrote: post #64

http://www.leftrightcenter.io/ I'm working on an alternative to Google News that shows the same event from multiple news outlets/perspectives so that you can draw your own conclusions. Let me know what you think!

Funny, we're trying to build something similar (though slightly different) with https://98clicks.com

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

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Post by cel1ne »

27182818284 wrote: post #50

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.

Is there a link I can bookmark to go there?

I don't use feeds or notifications but manual bookmarks so I can choose the time of reading.

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

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Post by bradgessler »

kxyvr wrote: post #62
bradgessler wrote: post #39

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…

Thanks for putting that up! Have any interest in piping that page into an RSS document?

Sure, I could do this within the next few weeks (time is my constraint ATM; technically this is simple)

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

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Post by bradgessler »

Nothorized wrote: post #57
bradgessler wrote: post #39

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.

Its not OSS at the moment.

I've thought a lot about this use case. My vision is that a few KB of text is delivered once per day to whatever-device at a desired time. No more. No less.

What language and locale would you be interested in?

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