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Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news

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Post by freiheit »

yakhinvadim wrote: post #3

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…

Overall: love the idea.

Any chance of updating the RSS feed item "summary" to something more useful than "significant news" and title to something more than the date? Or maybe an RSS feed of the newsletter format?

(I do see some of the older items have titles that include some info on what's included)

Basically, I think the ideal RSS feeds would be _two_: 1. RSS feed of every item that hits the 6/10 threshold (title and link to original, summary not too important, either same as title or paragraph summary of what the article is about) 2. RSS feed of the newsletter (title: "May 4 2023 - significant news", link: newsletter page, summary: list of article titles)

I suppose versions of #1 with diff thresholds could be nice, but I'd probably only use the default threshold.

Background: I run a bot that sends RSS feeds into discord channels (easily followable to any discord server) and this particular feed seems potentially quite handy for good news info. Probably overlaps with https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/ but that automation probably means it can catch breaking news faster than a manually-curated site like that.

Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news

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Post by krapp »

detaro wrote: post #187
krapp wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

What do you consider "not-news" where one might hear about important things in the (near) future?

If it doesn't affect you personally, it isn't relevant. If it would affect you personally, you'll probably know about it before the news does.

Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news

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Post by pissedoff1 »

Your ranking isnt very good, and I see repeated articles; google auth and drone on kremlin, which is really not significant news at all. The google auth thing is given a ranking of 6.8 (highest currently) and "debt limit could send US economy into recession is lower at 6.5", which seems like a much much bigger issue

New effective Alzheimer drug is even lower

Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news

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Post by MattyRad »

yakhinvadim wrote: post #3

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…

This is great!

I've subscribed to the RSS feed. I thought the feed would provide links the significant news articles directly, but it appears to provide a link to the newsminimalist.com summary. That's totally fine, but I'd think it'd be a bit nicer if there was an option to access the articles directly.

I'm also using ChatGPT to scrape online info and reduce it. Were there any particularly interesting problems that you had to solve? For me, it was figuring out ways to reduce the number of tokens so I don't hemorrhage money!

Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news

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Post by readthenotes1 »

yakhinvadim wrote: post #16
readthenotes1 wrote: post #13

Any chance of RSS? I get all my news through Feedly

Oh, good point, just created it: https://rss.beehiiv.com/feeds/4aF2pGVAEN.xml I have no control over it, but let me know if there are any problems with it — I'll see what I can do.

Thanks!

Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news

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Post by yakhinvadim »

freiheit wrote: post #221
yakhinvadim wrote: post #3

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…

Overall: love the idea. Any chance of updating the RSS feed item "summary" to something more useful than "significant news" and title to something more than the date? Or maybe an RSS feed of the newsletter format? (I do see some of the older items have titles that include some info on what's included) Basically, I think the ideal RSS feeds would be _two_: 1. RSS feed of every item that hits the 6/10 threshold (title…

Thanks for the feedback. All great points.

"RSS" that I have currently is generated by the email platform that I use for daily emails. It's not a proper RSS from website.

Making a proper RSS for website items is on my list, but I need to finish some other features first.

Agree about subtitles in older items, I guess I just got lazy writing them :) your message was just what I needed to get back to older better format.

Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news

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Post by yakhinvadim »

MattyRad wrote: post #224
yakhinvadim wrote: post #3

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…

This is great! I've subscribed to the RSS feed. I thought the feed would provide links the significant news articles directly, but it appears to provide a link to the newsminimalist.com summary. That's totally fine, but I'd think it'd be a bit nicer if there was an option to access the articles directly. I'm also using ChatGPT to scrape online info and reduce it. Were there any particularly interesting problems that…

Thanks!

Yeah RSS it not great currently. Replied about it here with more info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35820032

Oh, exactly the same problem. The straightforward implementation would make me broke in month :)

Had to make several optimizations to make the bill reasonable. Not all of them worked, some greatly reduced the quality of significance estimations.

Reducing number of tokens was super fun, forgot about it :D

Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news

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Post by yakhinvadim »

llimos wrote: post #225

On April 18, 1930, BBC radio famously announced, "There is no news tonight. Here is some music." [1] Those were the days. [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39633603

Thanks for the great link, I included it in today's issue: https://newsletter.newsminimalist.com/p/friday-may-5-nothing...
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