I stuffed all the sites I was checking multiple times per day into progscrape.com. I try to avoid visiting the sites directly and prefer to refresh one site which avoids getting into the "thrill of the hunt" for new news.
Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?
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Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Definitely recommend using Apollo with a little tuning for Reddit on mobile. Clean and clear of all their growth experiments
I like Apollo but I ended up having to install the official reddit app because most times if you google something on Mobile, it just doesn't open Apollo and tries to install the official one :/
This problem can be solved using the Apollo Safari extension.
In the Apollo app, click Settings -> General -> Open Reddit Links in Apollo.
Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Definitely recommend using Apollo with a little tuning for Reddit on mobile. Clean and clear of all their growth experiments
I like Apollo but I ended up having to install the official reddit app because most times if you google something on Mobile, it just doesn't open Apollo and tries to install the official one :/
They have an extension now for that reason, you enable it and automatically opens in Apollo (iirc the catch is to make sure the allow option is set to the reddit domain, not leaving it on "ask"). No more dealing with the purposefully downgraded mobile web page or the official reddit app.
Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?
#44Telegram, to find the stories the mainstream media avoids until it's no longer avoidable. Basically gives me the news months in advance, without all the bs. Remember when all the mainstream media wrote it was safe and effective, made you immune, and prevented spread? The real experts were blocked and banned from most places but Telegram, so that's where they went. And only lately has the mainstream media started to write about it. Remember when all the mainstream media wrote that the war would last only a few weeks? Remember when they wrote Russia was losing? Remember when they wrote, and still write, that the economy is only seeing a temporary setback, and will bounce back, even though banks are crashing? Yeah, no thanks, I prefer the truth rather than propaganda.
Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?
#45I am developing a smart RSS reader that ingests roughly 1000 articles a day and selects roughly 300 to show me. The current classification workhorse works on a miniLM embedding which is also used for clustering (unlike every other document clustering system i’ve seen, this one really works)
The performance of the classifier is limited by the fickleness of my judgements, I am thinking about making it into a bookmark manager, an image classifier, something that can sort through 5000 search results, and a workflow engine.
Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?
#46Telegram, to find the stories the mainstream media avoids until it's no longer avoidable. Basically gives me the news months in advance, without all the bs. Remember when all the mainstream media wrote it was safe and effective, made you immune, and prevented spread? The real experts were blocked and banned from most places but Telegram, so that's where they went. And only lately has the mainstream media started to w…
> Remember when they wrote Russia was losing?
In what Telegram channel is Russia not losing?
Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?
#47- HN
- Reddit via libreddit.nl
- But for the last few days it has been almost only Bluesky because it’s new and fresh
I don’t have notifications enabled, so just check whenever I feel like it, but without the goal to catch-up necessarily. That’s too much pressure for me, I become too anxious.
RSS feeds didn’t work for me, I tried multiple time over the past 15 years but find myself accumulating links without reading. It’s often too much of an effort, so I just ignore.
Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?
#481 app, no websites, ~100 notifications per day.
Self-hosted RSS Feed that broadcasts to my personal Telegram channel (MyNews). One and only source of "news" I consume.
Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?
#49Okay, this is embarrassing but I feel the need to contribute as a catharsis. LEISURE TIME 1. WSJ: the OpEd section is neocon trash, but the journalistic content is well sourced, objective, and interesting. 2. NYTimes: probably the highest quality journalism in the English-speaking world. 3. Economist: slower news cycle, more deeply analytical and intellectual than WSJ or NYT. 4. Bloomberg: nice in-depth stories about…
What processes are you automating?
Re: Ask HN: How many websites, apps or notifications do you look at to “catch-up”?
#50I have a "Daily" tab folder that I start my day with it. It contains HN / Bookface, several subreddits, and NYT, local news, and Ars Technica.
Over time, I started to remove subreddits that are no longer relevant to me (e.g. location I moved away from). Nowadays, typically spend 30 minutes or so reading news and discussions.