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

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

#71

Post by vinc » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 8:56 AM UTC

I scrape Wikipedia[1] for my website[2] like another user from this thread, it's pretty good to have a quick look at what happened during the day.

Then I check only the top news from some subreddits[3] and hackernews[4], and I usually hide what I read to avoid seeing them again.

And if I need more I can get the headlines of major news websites[5].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events/2017_Jul...

[2] https://news.vinc.cc/search?q=wikipedia

[3] https://news.vinc.cc/search?q=reddit+science+environment+tim...

[4] https://news.vinc.cc/search?q=hackernews+time:week

[5] https://news.vinc.cc/search?q=newsapi+the-guardian-uk

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

#72

Post by shishy » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 9:18 AM UTC

0xbear wrote: post #48

Protip: identify the news sources you don't like and ban them wholesale under "Manage Sections / Sources" in Google News. Banning just a few improves the experience tremendously. HuffPo and Buzzfeed are prime candidates for the ban hammer.

Isn't Buzzfeed news decent? I know their main site is full of clickbait, etc. but I was always under the impression that they used the money from there to fund their other journalistic ventures? Interesting, I suppose, how a negative perception of their clickbait side can negatively skew any decent/viable journalistic efforts...

Now that I think about it, I'm not 100% sure if I find it decent because I'm sub-consciously comparing it to the rest of Buzzfeed vs. all other news in general.

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

#73

Post by lucb1e » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 9:51 AM UTC

Depends, what do you use Google News for? I just read HN and Tweakers.net (Dutch). If you want multiple sources, why not visit a few of its sources? Or does Google News have an app that is convenient or something? I don't understand what you are looking for exactly.

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

#74

Post by unsigner » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 9:58 AM UTC

I usually don't want to be the wise-ass responding profoundly to a question that was not asked, but I can't resist.

Ignore news and focus on things that are more important, like family, health and work.

It's probably overall beneficial to have a rough idea what is going on in your city, your nation and the world - in that order - but try to do it on a larger timescale, rather than be a squirrel chasing the "news cycle" - which is what sites like Google News are geared towards.

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

#75

Post by TulliusCicero » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 9:59 AM UTC

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!

Interesting idea but the design right now is, well it feels like it's assaulting my eyes. Looking it on a laptop right now and each story element is just way too large. The font size is almost comical. The size of each story should be cut down like 50-75% I think.

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

#76

Post by jboynyc » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 10:04 AM UTC

For a quick, U.S.-centric overview of current political news headlines, Memeorandum is pretty good:

http://www.memeorandum.com/

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

#77

Post by jboynyc » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 10:08 AM UTC

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?

Here's a similar project that provides a lot of different formats: http://thecontext.net/

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

#78

Post by twosheep » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 10:14 AM UTC

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…

Your archive seems to be a bit out of date

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

#79

Post by adgasf » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 10:30 AM UTC

Lobste.rs is a better website, but a smaller community.

https://lobste.rs/

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

#80

Post by jerry40 » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 11:00 AM UTC

I migrated to The Old Reader (https://theoldreader.com). I even tried to wirte the emacs mode for it (just for education), but didn't manage to finish it yet (https://github.com/jerry40/the-old-mode).