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News Minimalist – Only significant news
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Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news
#172Hey 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…
RSS: https://rss.beehiiv.com/feeds/4aF2pGVAEN.xml
(some people had complaints about formatting there, will try to fix soon)
Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news
#173For people looking for something similar and actually minimalist, I highly recommend http://68k.news
I don't know what algo it uses, but it basically grabs top headlines, aggregates similar stories with their headlines (so you can see how other news sites headlined the same news), and then most importantly presents a plaintext version of the article that is accessible without visiting the news site directly.
It's honestly the best news site I've ever used, and would recommend it a thousand times over. I also believe I found out about it on HN a few years back
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#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...
Oddly enough in the 'least significant section', with scores Also, the second to last least significant article seems to be incorrectly categorized: "Regenerative medicine has come a long way, baby" Which is actually a serious look back at the advancements over the last quarter century, hardly deserving the second to last position. It seems like ChatGPT is ranking them not based on actual content significance but pre…
Nice catch. Just checked that article — it actually got rating 2.8 just based on the news content, but the source credibility 1/10 brought it down to 0.3.
I don't think it's fair, I think ChatGPT hallucinated that it's a tabloid.
Not sure how to fix this. I don't want to adjust sources credibility manually, that will introduce too much bias. My hope is that OpenAI will update ChatGPT with newer data and I could rerun the credibility evaluation.
Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news
#175The difficulty here is figuring out a definition of "significant news" enough people agree on.
For example, you've missed my definition for the same reason many mainstream outlets do: I don't care about the Russian/Ukrainian conflict. That alone is 4 out of 14 of your front page stories.
It's a good idea, but it will be difficult to execute in a way useful to a significant number of people.
Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news
#176Hey 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'm sure you're aware, but I don't see a comment - the site is down.
Wasn't aware, thank you. Can't find anything in logs, is it still down for you?
Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news
#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oddly enough in the 'least significant section', with scores Also, the second to last least significant article seems to be incorrectly categorized: "Regenerative medicine has come a long way, baby" Which is actually a serious look back at the advancements over the last quarter century, hardly deserving the second to last position. It seems like ChatGPT is ranking them not based on actual content significance but pre…
Nice catch. Just checked that article — it actually got rating 2.8 just based on the news content, but the source credibility 1/10 brought it down to 0.3. I don't think it's fair, I think ChatGPT hallucinated that it's a tabloid. Not sure how to fix this. I don't want to adjust sources credibility manually, that will introduce too much bias. My hope is that OpenAI will update ChatGPT with newer data and I could rerun…
Assuming an average of 20 tokens per headline (~10-14 words), 1200 headlines would be 24000 tokens, which is already near the limit of the API-exclusive GPT-4's window of 32,768 tokens, and way beyond the 8,192 token length of the ChatGPT version.
So it's exceedingly unlikely the actual content, beyond the headline, is processed if your using the ChatGPT version.
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#178Love the minimalistic approach. May I ask what library have you used for chart?
Thanks! It's Chart.js: https://www.chartjs.org/
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#179Is the web opensource? Do you plan to add dark mode?
It's not open source.
Dark mode is already there, but it follows the system settings, no manual toggle.
Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news
#180This is a great idea, the only issue is that in many cases "news" or "what I want to read" can be very subjective. If I want to know what's happening from an authoritative source I go straight to Reuters and that's it. However, there is also objectively less interesting news out there that I might want to click and read, and reducing the score to 3,4,5... (?) will give me a ton of crappy news which I don't want to re…
Good point, filters are essential (category, source, maybe country). Will try to add them soon.