Just throwing out there a useless startup idea I had a couple months ago (useless because if you implemented it there would be no moat to anyone else): Show the same news story and have GPT generate left, right and center versions of it that you can diff side by side.
News Minimalist – Only significant news
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#122I am European and see another US news oriented site which ironically is not "minimalist" from my perspective. It is (to me) littered with US domestic concerns. My point is that _minimalist_ is highly subjective and a pretty huge promise from a site. But kudos to the effort and the idea of keeping news small is a most noble cause
Agree, as a Canadian, I also find that today too many US-centric news made the cut, but often it's not the case. Here's a recent issue covering different topics and not mentioning US at all: https://newsletter.newsminimalist.com/p/tuesday-april-25-3-m...
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#123Hey 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…
very good idea and good website, but very US focused. so not very useful. one thing that people tend to ignore about google and apple is how good their localization are. ofc i am not expecting the same sophistication from a team of 1, and i am not expecting anything at all. but i just want to encourage developers to think global from the get go.
True for today, many US-centric news made the cut. But that's not always the case. Here's recent issue with no US news: https://newsletter.newsminimalist.com/p/tuesday-april-25-3-m...
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#124I liked and, as some people commented, for wide adoption it is important to have some sort of customisation since every person have their own sense of what is relevant or not. But one thing that is missing imho is a RSS Feed. RSS is not dead and a lot of people still uses instead of consume a newsletter at their e-mails.
Here's the one generated by email platform (will work on improving it, some people had complaints) https://rss.beehiiv.com/feeds/4aF2pGVAEN.xml
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#125Very cool idea! Since I‘m not checking news too often, for me a possibility to also define the time range would be a cool feature - or even better a cookie that remembers when I was on the site and gives me the best articles since I last visited (with a min and max range).
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#127when all the news sources are from the same owner's and only to manipulate the masses, it doesn't matter which news you pick, better not to read any news at all
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#128Love the minimalistic approach. May I ask what library have you used for chart?
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#129what the world needs is news maximalist. where someone with minimal brains read the article before reposting it. critical thinking like chatgpt can't.
for example your minimalist list shows "ibm to layoff thousands to replace them with ai". that's not minimizing the news, because now i I'm less informed. someone with knowledge of ibm know they are dead and would layoff with our without the magic ai excuse. so your site kept the non news part of a headline.
same about US default. everyone know there will be no default. the headline with minimal critical thinking should be "legislative keep pushing executive for concessions to raise the bureaucratic debt limit"
see, thinking is not that hard. but there's zero of it in news and your site minimize it even more.
Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news
#130Hey 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…
Some news entries appear to be of the "Top 5 things you should know today" variety, where it covers multiple topics. Example screenshot.[0] Might want to filter those out somehow?