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

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

#91

Post by threepipeproblm » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 1:04 PM UTC

timthelion wrote: post #89

In the Czech Republic, for several years now, google news has been filled with fascist propoganda. I think that no one sane from Google, who understands Czech, ever looks there to see what kind of shit they're promoting.

Am I missing something? I translated a bunch of articles from the current Czech Google News page and didn't see anything remotely fascist.

It seems there is a trend of those on the left referring to anything on the right as fascist. IMO this is dangerous because it dilutes the actual meaning of fascism. I'm not saying fascist ideology isn't out there btw.

Can you point out an example?

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

#92

Post by petraeus » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 1:10 PM UTC

RSS feeds, I currently am subscribed to over 1200 feeds ranging from cooking, to hunting, to bikes (motor and pedal), to fashion, arts, humanites, economics, social science, world affairs, programming, finance, coupons, hockey, china, you name the subject you are interested in and you can find hundreds of fees for your preference.

Only sheep passively consume news as its fed to them.

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

#93

Post by d0m » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 1:17 PM UTC

There's one thing on reddit called "multireddits" which is an aggregation of multiple subreddits; so I picked my local news subreddits + world ones and this is my daily news. I like it very much. Only complaint is that it seems to show the same news multiple days in a row even though I "read" it already.

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

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Post by psynapse » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 2:41 PM 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…

Hat tip to you sir. Bookmarked.

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

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Post by cpncrunch » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 2:50 PM 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.

It actually looks like all of these are legitimate news sites that have been hacked so that they redirect to viagra sites if the url is crafted correctly and if the referral comes from google news, e.g. http://www.maceandcrown.com/?zhq49qb=1658898069 (link works fine there, but when referred from google news it goes to a viagra site).

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

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Post by SyneRyder » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 3:22 PM 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.

This is a great tip (eg banning TMZ seems like a great idea). Unfortunately, if you switch between US & regional Google News often (maybe you mostly read Google News Australia), it has a tendency to delete all your carefully curated settings on both sites.

You can also add preferred sources now, which helps a lot (when they don't delete it). I found adding WSJ, Deutsche Welle, FT, Bloomberg, Financial Review & similar sources improved things for me. I wish I could add blogs I follow there too.

I'd love to see a Google News alternative that used a customisable whitelist of sources, and mute filters to block topics I'm just not interested in.

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

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Post by 27182818284 » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 4:42 PM UTC

cel1ne wrote: post #66

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.

I think https://www.nytimes.com/briefing was what I was thinking of. I kept trying different versions including the word daily, but just briefing works.

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

#98

Post by 0xbear » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 5:08 PM UTC

SyneRyder wrote: post #96

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.

This is a great tip (eg banning TMZ seems like a great idea). Unfortunately, if you switch between US & regional Google News often (maybe you mostly read Google News Australia), it has a tendency to delete all your carefully curated settings on both sites. You can also add preferred sources now, which helps a lot (when they don't delete it). I found adding WSJ, Deutsche Welle, FT, Bloomberg, Financial Review & simila…

I actually think it just loses your choices completely on its own and local news thing is unrelated. If you add them a few more times, they stick.

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

#99

Post by gmgarrison » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 5:14 PM UTC

nl wrote: post #81

Is there actually interest in a site which does what Google News does, but better (somehow?). What exactly would people want to see different to Google News? I've been mucking around with various things in this area for over 15 years now, but I'm just not sure what is useful to others? Please tell me, because I'd like to build it. Reply here or email or Twitter.

I'm curious - do you mean you've been playing around with news aggregators for 15 years or something else?

I'm not the OP but there's clearly some pretty widespread dissatisfaction with the current news production and consumption landscape. I think there's a huge appetite for bias identification and noise identification and filtering. Given that the idea of a "fact" is something the two main political parties cannot agree on, it seems that's there a huge opportunity for someone/something to come in and disrupt that.

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

#100

Post by gnicholas » Mon, Jul 10, 2017, 5:45 PM 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!

Cool concept, along the lines of Allsides.com. I'm behind ReadAcrossTheAisle — LMK if you want to talk about collaboration opportunities.