https://www.newsminimalist.com/ This was posted on HN a few weeks ago? Uses GPT to rank news
Does this service have yesterdays ranking somewhere? Similarly to HN past pages?
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Ask HN: What other news feeds do you read besides Hacker News?
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's wrong with self-promotion in comments? Is it against the rules or some code-of-conduct?
It's a self-endorsement without any contribution towards the discuss topic. I didn't want to flag the poster as they seem new, but this was explicitly against the community guidelines. Imagine if everyone that had a blog, newsletter, rss reader, news aggregator site, or AI tool did this. What would that do for community and conversation? It would be miserable, we'd call it all spam. Instead, I'd suggest making a root…
Absolutely, please do mention if you’re self promoting. Otherwise, get lost?
Re: Ask HN: What other news feeds do you read besides Hacker News?
#164Global: - https://www.to-rss.xyz/wikipedia/ (1/day) Local: - https://publicola.com (20/month) - https://washingtonstatewire.com (1/month) - https://southseattleemerald.com/category/news/ (20/month) - https://www.seattlebikeblog.com (20/month) - https://seattletransitblog.com (10/month) - https://wasmoke.blogspot.com (2/month) - https://washingtonbeerblog.com (1/day) Tech: - https://weeklyosm.eu (1/week) - https://thi…
Do you use any tools to keep current on all these sites?
Not OP, but I find Inoreader quite good for that. It not only handles RSS but also will monitor "normal" webpages, forming pseudo-RSS, and will also monitor Facebook pages and other alerts.
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#165Global: - https://www.to-rss.xyz/wikipedia/ (1/day) Local: - https://publicola.com (20/month) - https://washingtonstatewire.com (1/month) - https://southseattleemerald.com/category/news/ (20/month) - https://www.seattlebikeblog.com (20/month) - https://seattletransitblog.com (10/month) - https://wasmoke.blogspot.com (2/month) - https://washingtonbeerblog.com (1/day) Tech: - https://weeklyosm.eu (1/week) - https://thi…
> Plus about 100 personal blogs (3/day) and update feeds of e.g. software releases, OSM activity in my neighborhood, etc. (6/day).
What RSS reader do you use to keep up with all this?
Re: Ask HN: What other news feeds do you read besides Hacker News?
#166The only other news I consume is via AllSides: https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news They take a headline and present an article from different 3 news sources. The 3 sources will include left leaning, right leaning and more neutral new organizations so you get a perspective from all sides.
I was actually put off by this division of news into the three bins. Putting things into meme categories like this is really just embodying division...
I can see that.
Given time and interest, an honest search for knowledge is preferable to reading a set number of ideologically-rooted viewpoints.
However, given a lifetime of experience, many people have political philosophies. Right or wrong ([1]), they aren’t wanting to be challenged on any meaningful level with most articles they read.
My take is that probably only something on the order of 1% of Americans are using substantial critical thinking when reading news.
I don’t want to sound like I’m just complaining, so I’ll offer this actionable hypothesis. We are expecting too much of people given their stretched attention spans and carnivorous media habits. When I say “expecting too much”, I’m saying that it is statistically impossible for more than a rarefied subset of people to engage in a meaningful way under such conditions.
If we want some sort of Athenian town hall discussions, we would have to change the rules and context of discussion. Allowing people to bounce around cyberspace, commenting with about as much thought as birds put into mid-flight pooping is just not going to give satisfactory results.
Notes:
1. Wrong! … I’d say a vast majority of people are wrong to think their underlying philosophies about politics or human psychology are good enough as is. They are “good enough” for a token level of understanding and tribal echo chamber discussion.
If I could be benevolent version of Rupert Murdoch for a day, and hoped to educate an audience, I would still struggle to find effective ways to succeed at engaging the audience for any meaningful kind of ‘educational’ content. Heck, as much as I like comedic style news stories (a la John Oliver) they aren’t really showing how to do critical thinking. They are still largely emotionally driven, non-scholarly looks at current events. While I happen to agree with many of Oliver’s calls to action, his rhetoric vastly overshadows his analysis.
Re: Ask HN: What other news feeds do you read besides Hacker News?
#167Global: - https://www.to-rss.xyz/wikipedia/ (1/day) Local: - https://publicola.com (20/month) - https://washingtonstatewire.com (1/month) - https://southseattleemerald.com/category/news/ (20/month) - https://www.seattlebikeblog.com (20/month) - https://seattletransitblog.com (10/month) - https://wasmoke.blogspot.com (2/month) - https://washingtonbeerblog.com (1/day) Tech: - https://weeklyosm.eu (1/week) - https://thi…
> Plus about 100 personal blogs (3/day) and update feeds of e.g. software releases, OSM activity in my neighborhood, etc. (6/day). What RSS reader do you use to keep up with all this?
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#168Global: - https://www.to-rss.xyz/wikipedia/ (1/day) Local: - https://publicola.com (20/month) - https://washingtonstatewire.com (1/month) - https://southseattleemerald.com/category/news/ (20/month) - https://www.seattlebikeblog.com (20/month) - https://seattletransitblog.com (10/month) - https://wasmoke.blogspot.com (2/month) - https://washingtonbeerblog.com (1/day) Tech: - https://weeklyosm.eu (1/week) - https://thi…
> Plus about 100 personal blogs (3/day) and update feeds of e.g. software releases, OSM activity in my neighborhood, etc. (6/day). What RSS reader do you use to keep up with all this?
Readwise Reader is pretty awesome for this. Also stores all the highlights.
Re: Ask HN: What other news feeds do you read besides Hacker News?
#169I actually found Hacker News through https://brutalist.report/ . Nice conglomeration of headlines/links from lots of different sources. Lots of tech and science, but also a good mix of global news.
Thanks a lot for sharing this, I've been procrastinating doing an aggregated news feed with the simplest html possible for years and seeing this live just made me happy. Thank you!
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#170Techmeme.com
And remember slashdot.com?