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News Minimalist – Only significant news

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Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news

#131

Hey 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…

Great work! I'd consider specifying the list of criteria for significance further, in order to counteract the heavy US bias of ChatGPT and, therefore, your site. I'm not a prompt engineer, but perhaps something on relevance for people from different countries, or simply adding to your prompt a sentence on ensuring geographical diversity.

The idea of filtering news sourced mentioned elsewhere is nice, but will necessitate considerable input from users, kind of negating the purpose of the site

Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news

#132
One of the first things journalism students learn is that news, by its nature, is significant or it isn't news. The "significance score" is deeply subjective and clearly defaults to an american worldview.

So if I were a subeditor tasked with writing a standfiest for this, my headline would be: "american tech people miss point of journalism"

More seriously, it takes a human's judgement to do this well. Editors will often read all the other daily papers, weeklies, magazines, and other periodicals. They're highly attuned to "relevance". ChatGPT is clearly editorially very naive

Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news

#133

Hey 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…

I have a question: when watching shows like Last Week Tonight by John Oliver, it feels like the important news that make direct impact on people’s lives are more local than national or even international. The state changing a law here, the city building something new or make it harder to X..etc.,

Have you considered/thought about this aspect of news?

Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news

#134

I 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.

Agreed, an RSS feed is the first thing I looked for on the website. Didn't find it, moved on, will probably forget about the website in a couple of hours.

From the footer:

> simply visit newsminimalist.com when you feel like it.

That's exactly what RSS feeds are for, so you can subscribe to a website and get the updates without the need to visit it again or even think about it again.

Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news

#136
I would really love a service like this, but the problems for achieving it are pretty big, define significant? This varies a lot from person to person and I feel it is hugely important that it gets this right for someone that wants to stay informed, because if it misses something that would be annoying and the reason you'd revert back to traditional sources.

Secondly, it's more of a local thing, most of this is US news as people have pointed out, significant varies again based on location.

Being able to manage information is not a battle I feel is being won right now, because content publishers have the complete opposite goals and curation tools aren't adequate enough.

Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news

#138
post #70

This 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.

> This seems to be highly focused on global financial news, which are unsignificant to most people on this planet.

Or perhaps they are more significant than they feel because their trickle-down effect is slow and hard to trace.

Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news

#139
The question is whether one should reduce one's news consumption to only "core" stories. In all likelihood that would show you only today's disasters but not the build-up of tomorrow's.

Personally, I highly recommend you to rely on more than one source of news, ideally with different country and political biases (for instance, I enjoy reading in The Guardian about Germany, and watching Al Jazeera to learn about what's new in the UK).

Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news

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post #139

The question is whether one should reduce one's news consumption to only "core" stories. In all likelihood that would show you only today's disasters but not the build-up of tomorrow's. Personally, I highly recommend you to rely on more than one source of news, ideally with different country and political biases (for instance, I enjoy reading in The Guardian about Germany, and watching Al Jazeera to learn about what'…

I feel like if you have to hear about it on "the news" to begin with, it probably isn't relevant to you.
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