Run another instance of it on a different tld only for positive news, and I will sign up!
"Positive news" filter is a very requested feature, will try to prioritize soon!
News Minimalist – Only significant news
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#102This seems to be highly focused on global financial news, which are unsignificant to most people on this planet. It would be nice to be able to include or exclude certain news-categories to actually produce a list that has some significance to the reader.
I'm guessing the Arithmetic to maximising significance to population favours economics because 10 cents for every Indian outweighs 300 dead in a train crash several times over.
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#103Excellent work! Keep the minimalism of the home page, but add a way for users to customise what is significant for them.
It reminds me of The Economist's daily The World in Brief, which I currently subscribe to and is quite expensive...
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#104This seems to be highly focused on global financial news, which are unsignificant to most people on this planet. It would be nice to be able to include or exclude certain news-categories to actually produce a list that has some significance to the reader.
Indeed. The perfect news feed has to be tailored to the reader. For instance, events in my city have rather large impact on me but are not interesting for most of the planet.
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#105How are you scraping all this content?
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#106This is great! Would be nice if it didn’t include sites with paywalls as an option.
Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news
#107Excellent work! Keep the minimalism of the home page, but add a way for users to customise what is significant for them. It reminds me of The Economist's daily The World in Brief, which I currently subscribe to and is quite expensive...
Really happy to pay for journalism like the economist. But not sure what a solution could be for people unable to afford it.
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#108> we use AI (ChatGPT-4) [...] Credibility: how credible is the source.
Mirror mirror on the wall, who is credible at all?
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#109Hey HN, author of the site here! Happy to answer any questions. (below is the project description I used when posted about it on Reddit) The problem I have with most news sites is that I can't read only important news: an article about a virus outbreak is followed by some celebrity gossip or another smartphone release. But even on sites that focus on important events articles are posted every day and there are always…
Such a great idea! Good job!
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#110That's a neat idea OP - I usually give https://www.economist.com/the-world-in-brief give a quick scroll, but I quite like sourcing from several news sites, and the summaries are good.
Where and how are you getting the ~1000 news articles you feed to GPT4? I think it would go a long way for transparency to list that somewhere on the website. Also, are you using international news agencies? Quite a lot of them publish an English feed too.
I would also love to see the difference it would make given a different geographical prompt ("in the context of China/India/Asia/Europe... How would you are this article") and political ideology prompt ("how would you rate this article for a Republican/Democrat/Libertarian/Socialist...")