Endless Doom Scroller • Hacker News Board

Re: Endless Doom Scroller

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Post by colmvp » Tue, Aug 04, 2020, 12:30 PM UTC

It's interesting that they chose precisely the same typeface used by the New York Times for their wordmark.

Re: Endless Doom Scroller

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Post by Tepix » Tue, Aug 04, 2020, 12:30 PM UTC

Elon Musk on avoiding daily news:

“The daily news I find to be a lot of noise. Generally newspapers seem to try to answer the question, ‘What is the worst thing that happened on the Earth today?’”

Re: Endless Doom Scroller

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Post by noitsnot » Tue, Aug 04, 2020, 12:38 PM UTC

noetokyo wrote: post #2

I thought this was gonna be doom the game

I tried clicking on the buttons but nothing happens.

Re: Endless Doom Scroller

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Post by ldad » Tue, Aug 04, 2020, 12:40 PM UTC

Something similar: https://badnewsfirst.co/

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Post by davedx » Tue, Aug 04, 2020, 12:42 PM UTC

Hey, it’s the Guardian’s front page with less photos!

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Post by Tepix » Tue, Aug 04, 2020, 12:44 PM UTC

hatch_q wrote: post #13

ackbar03 wrote: post #5

I thought it was gonna link to some articles at least

Randomly generated by GPT-3

I don't see any info on how it is generated. Is it really GPT-3?

It would be interesting to have GPT-3 write a short teaser for each headline.

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Aug 04, 2020, 12:47 PM UTC

Tepix wrote: post #22

Elon Musk on avoiding daily news: “ The daily news I find to be a lot of noise. Generally newspapers seem to try to answer the question, ‘What is the worst thing that happened on the Earth today?’ ”

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Re: Endless Doom Scroller

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Post by Wolfenstein98k » Tue, Aug 04, 2020, 12:49 PM UTC

Why is a simple link to the New York Times main page worthy of a post here on HN?

Oh...

Re: Endless Doom Scroller

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Post by ivolimmen » Tue, Aug 04, 2020, 12:51 PM UTC

338 different doom messages are not endless but depressing non the less...

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Post by glaberficken » Tue, Aug 04, 2020, 12:52 PM UTC

Tepix wrote: post #22

Elon Musk on avoiding daily news: “ The daily news I find to be a lot of noise. Generally newspapers seem to try to answer the question, ‘What is the worst thing that happened on the Earth today?’ ”

Nassim Taleb, also makes many allusions to this in several of his books.

Particularly jarring is the constant fixation that is going on in the news with Daily COVID-19 data. There is simply too much daily variation that has nothing to do with how the virus is spreading and affecting each location. A huge waste of attention and resources with titles such as "Largest number of new cases in a day since March!"... so what?