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Re: Show HN: Top headlines of the world to start the day

#93
I've been always quite impressed how well the people who produced the content for the teletext managed to compress the information.

Take a look at the current news for example here: https://yle.fi/aihe/tekstitv?P=194

That's the opposite of clickbait titles. Actual information communicated in few lines. This is the kind of summary I would like to start my mornings with.

Re: Show HN: Top headlines of the world to start the day

#94

I've been always quite impressed how well the people who produced the content for the teletext managed to compress the information. Take a look at the current news for example here: https://yle.fi/aihe/tekstitv?P=194 That's the opposite of clickbait titles. Actual information communicated in few lines. This is the kind of summary I would like to start my mornings with.

See also BBG news headlines

Re: Show HN: Top headlines of the world to start the day

#95

Honestly local news is more relevant to your life than stuff happening on the other side of the world. /unpopular opinion

I used to think that. Then I realized that during the last 5-10 years, international developments have impacted my life far more than what's happening in my neighborhood/municipality. Remote working, covid restrictions, crypto, etc. What happens in the world ends up knocking on your door sooner or later.

Re: Show HN: Top headlines of the world to start the day

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Honestly local news is more relevant to your life than stuff happening on the other side of the world. /unpopular opinion

I used to think that. Then I realized that during the last 5-10 years, international developments have impacted my life far more than what's happening in my neighborhood/municipality. Remote working, covid restrictions, crypto, etc. What happens in the world ends up knocking on your door sooner or later.

I see your point for sure. But I’d say Covid was pretty exceptional though.

I’m not sure if crypto counts as major headlines especially if you wanted to find out about it early.

I’d actually see early crypto news as a local interest but local meaning a technical niche instead of geographical.

I still think 99% of major daily headlines won’t affect your daily life. Assuming we ever go back to 2019 boring.

Re: Show HN: Top headlines of the world to start the day

#97
post #78

Surprising to see so much negativity here. Limiting to a small number of headlines is a useful mechanic. I can see this going in a number of interesting directions.

Agree. The places I go on the web have become more and more centralized/limited. I think projects like this that help to surface and aggregate interesting content from the web (which is really what I come to HN to find) are great.

Re: Show HN: Top headlines of the world to start the day

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Why? Honestly, who cares? I'd rather have a dashboard of my personal health metrics to start my day with - that way I know how to improve my life and how things are going for me. Just 5 metrics I want to know every day: 1. Sleep hours / sleep rating for the previous night (good, ok, bad) 2. Projected personal net income this week (total incoming - total outgoing expenses) 3. # New users of my SaaS startup 4. Project…

Okay? So get off here and go build that for yourself then.

A guy builds a news aggregator and shows it on HN, and you purposely click on something you know you are not interested in just to comment that you are not interested in it? Why?

Not everything is for you man.

Re: Show HN: Top headlines of the world to start the day

#99
I prefer trying to find news on my own whenever I do. I just try to look around a bit, get different views - even the ones that would rather disgust me and I give up often midway to articles and opinions but that exposure is needed.

I try not to equate news with that one truth - it can't be - but rather something towards the truth - or let's just call it "knowing about some event or something in somewhat detail" - and that rather unsavoury exposure often reveals some parts of that perceived truth/knowledge that wouldn't be exposed to me if I didn't read views that are actually exactly opposite to mine, which I can't reconcile with. No one writes absolutely.

Also, being from India I do not try to limit myself to the "English only" news sources -- that is one way to read views which are extremely limiting in the sense of being from within an intellectual ghetto for both - Right and Left; and even the Centre. In fact more so for the Left and Centre because the Right had figured out that the vernacular is where the mass is and that's where their propaganda machine attacked almost a decade ago and then won the country in a swift propaganda coup of lies, deceit and misinformation. While the progressive intellectuals kept bickering in English, often among themselves.

What I meant is -- we should not try to filter news too much, limit our scope and sources for ideas. It's okay to go to and through a mishmash of sources.

And last one 1-2 years has taught me - nothing beats paper sources, even now; print magazines. Online, apps, Twitter, lists and all those shiny gaudy and minimal websites, and what not are just fancy tools to play with or are the refuse for the news obsessed/addicted. Okay, this is taking it a bit too far, but online sources do indeed distract too much and encourages you to scan, rather than absorbing, is too quick, and often leading to endless click/search-athon.

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