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Re: TL;DR — Faster News

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Post by swader »

While I feel like this is a very interesting initiative, my distrust in humankind makes me fear bias and sponsorship. What if a big sponsor decides competitor news are to be ignored and their own news are to be kept at the top longer?

Re: TL;DR — Faster News

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Post by OafTobark »

swader wrote: post #2

While I feel like this is a very interesting initiative, my distrust in humankind makes me fear bias and sponsorship. What if a big sponsor decides competitor news are to be ignored and their own news are to be kept at the top longer?

Talk to yourself much?

Re: TL;DR — Faster News

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Post by logn »

Cool. I was just complaining how cluttered and junky Google News has been looking lately. Way too many links, borders, and images. It used to feel so clean compared to the other news sites. This is what I was looking for.

Also, how did you get the summaries? It's like you have some algorithm to re-word the first paragraph of the story.

Re: TL;DR — Faster News

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Post by cskau »

corporalagumbo wrote: post #5

Nice clear tablet-friendly design. Bold to go with text-only too. How is this news chosen and paraphrased though?

The info page[0] says a little more, though not much. The news seems simply selected by the small handful of guys behind it, rewritten and posted manually.

This being HN and all I must admit I had my hopes up for something more .. technical. Some kind of text summariser perhaps..

Nice site never the less.

[0] http://toolong-didntread.com/info

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