Show HN: Not Depressing News

Post by gameswithgo » Fri, Nov 02, 2018, 1:20 PM UTC

throw2016 wrote: post #100

bitexploder wrote: post #25

On the one hand, I will compliment this and say what a good idea is this is. The world is becoming, on average, a less violent, more prosperous place since the industrial revolution. Fewer people starve and there is much less armed conflict. People need to be reminded of this. But it can be a really dangerous game to live in an bubble and turn blinders on to reality. I hope everyone can take this "not depressing" new…

Prosperous for whom? There are people who are struggling to make ends meet, have their houses dispossessed, can't get steady jobs or afford housing, in student debt they can't pay, facing racism and violence from the state now and segregation in the recent past so its a matter of individual experiences and perspectives. There are entire countries in the middle east that have been destroyed with millions dead, million…

Post by bromley » Fri, Nov 02, 2018, 1:23 PM UTC

Post by palunon » Fri, Nov 02, 2018, 1:24 PM UTC

vanderZwan wrote: post #75

quietbritishjim wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> For instance, saying "it's not without issues" usually means something different from "it has issues". Interesting that you go on to say that "it's not without issues" is milder than "it has issues". To me it's the opposite, like a short form of "Is it without issues? No way!" I guess it depends on context and, particularly, how much sarcasm can be detected in the tone of voice (if said out loud). > In this particu…

Your username implies that you're from the UK. Isn't this a well-known cultural difference between British and... just about any other culture? I know we Dutch people get caught by that quite often. (Funny enough, in the Groningen region the expression "kon minder" ("could be worse") is often used as high praise. Whatever it applies to is implied to be fantastic, almost perfect, in a "but don't get cocky about it" ki…

Post by shawn » Fri, Nov 02, 2018, 1:34 PM UTC

crispyambulance wrote: post #98

bitexploder wrote: post #25

On the one hand, I will compliment this and say what a good idea is this is. The world is becoming, on average, a less violent, more prosperous place since the industrial revolution. Fewer people starve and there is much less armed conflict. People need to be reminded of this. But it can be a really dangerous game to live in an bubble and turn blinders on to reality. I hope everyone can take this "not depressing" new…

I think the intent is solid. But using curation by someone else in an attempt to solve the problem of overwhelming malaise in one's news feed just won't "scale" (sorry for using that valley buzzword). How much can any entity curate on a day-to-day basis? How does one decide what's actually worthy? Didn't we see this before in the early web when Yahoo thought it could categorize everything? Can we trust _anybody_ (oth…

Post by gitgud » Fri, Nov 02, 2018, 1:38 PM UTC

ohashi wrote: post #46

Karuma wrote: post #8

So, you're just taking the list from https://www.reddit.com/r/UpliftingNews/ ? You should at least name/link them somewhere...

It looks like it's just UpliftingNews but uglier than reddit (which is kind of impressive). I think for it to be an MVP it has to be more than just scraping some community's content. Otherwise this is just an RSS view of one subreddit - I'd rather get the subreddit and all the comments and content surrounding it. No real added benefit from this site.