https://lite.cnn.com is my go to source. Extremely minimal and can look at all headlines so quickly.
Text only news websites (2022)
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#32Check out https://markets.sh news. They are actually text only, from many different sources, clustered and summarized. It is really good to get a gist of what’s currently important without having to “read news” with the known nuisances that come with it. Edit, thank you for the feedback. Some clarifications: - we launched the news feature literally yesterday, it is MVP level so expect inaccuracies especially in the s…
>They are actually text only, Interesting claim considering there are 276 image tags in the HTML: https://imgur.com/a/x9ODk0r
The icons are super small but I get your point. Text-only in a way of no autoplay video, ads, big pictures etc right now. We are planning to launch true (like text.npr.org) text version and RSS as well.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nice. Did you build this? If so, what's the tech stack you used? I like the interface - compact and fast.
Thanks! Yeah, I’m one of the founders. It’s Nextjs on Supabase. We launched the news clustering just yesterday so I thought it would be nice to get some stealth HN feedback for it. We are planning to launch an API (rss style) for the news next week where you can get temporal clusters and everything. Imagine having full access to all of Twitter trending but across all news sources. We are trying to filter clickbait, S…
I just want to say "me too", the site is great. I rarely use twitter, but will follow you.
But dumb question, what do I follow ? :)
Re: Text only news websites (2022)
#34Dutch: https://noslite.nl
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#35Try https://skimfeed.com , it's my daily for tech news and how I got here.
Re: Text only news websites (2022)
#36Check out https://markets.sh news. They are actually text only, from many different sources, clustered and summarized. It is really good to get a gist of what’s currently important without having to “read news” with the known nuisances that come with it. Edit, thank you for the feedback. Some clarifications: - we launched the news feature literally yesterday, it is MVP level so expect inaccuracies especially in the s…
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The summaries for several headlines are completely bogus, which undermines any credibility that this was a reliable site. For example, the Lufthansa Strike blames a technical issue, not the strike that all linked articles discuss. Next, the Khazahstan election summary mentions voters in Turkey and Turkmenistan. There’s also duplicated stories, and other obvious issues any human editor would catch.
I suspect this is secretly powered by some AI that doesn’t actually work all that well.
Re: Text only news websites (2022)
#37Check out https://markets.sh news. They are actually text only, from many different sources, clustered and summarized. It is really good to get a gist of what’s currently important without having to “read news” with the known nuisances that come with it. Edit, thank you for the feedback. Some clarifications: - we launched the news feature literally yesterday, it is MVP level so expect inaccuracies especially in the s…
Perhaps I'm missing something but for a text-only interface, why do you need javescript? I always disable it in my browser and your site shows very little without it. Ran it in a VM to allow JS see what it did and got "Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information)."
Re: Text only news websites (2022)
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks! Yeah, I’m one of the founders. It’s Nextjs on Supabase. We launched the news clustering just yesterday so I thought it would be nice to get some stealth HN feedback for it. We are planning to launch an API (rss style) for the news next week where you can get temporal clusters and everything. Imagine having full access to all of Twitter trending but across all news sources. We are trying to filter clickbait, S…
Since you asked for some, here's my immediate 2 cents: Please change the slide out on the left to be visible permanently. I have 1920 pixels of horizontal screen real estate, and the page is quite literally half empty whitespace anyway. For what conceivable reason is that menu on the left a hidden-by-default slide out? It even hides pertinent stock information. Also concerning the stock information, please add some w…
Thank you, the feedback is appreciated and makes a lot of sense! I have added a little pin icon on the bottom left of the sidebar to keep it open.
Re: Text only news websites (2022)
#39Check out https://markets.sh news. They are actually text only, from many different sources, clustered and summarized. It is really good to get a gist of what’s currently important without having to “read news” with the known nuisances that come with it. Edit, thank you for the feedback. Some clarifications: - we launched the news feature literally yesterday, it is MVP level so expect inaccuracies especially in the s…
Perhaps I'm missing something but for a text-only interface, why do you need javescript? I always disable it in my browser and your site shows very little without it. Ran it in a VM to allow JS see what it did and got "Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information)."
Yes sorry I should have been more clear here. Text-only as in no ads, video, etc. i will add a static build without any javascript to make up for it!
The site is focussed on financial data, charts and realtime updates. This is why it is javascript heavy despite visually simple.
Re: Text only news websites (2022)
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I can think of a couple of reasons: - He sees no point in adding another layer of abstraction and complexity to something simple. - he's into retro computing, and old machines can't handle NNW. - Fewer and fewer web sites support RSS, so using NNW limits his options. - Sometimes you want to read the news from a particular web site, and not graze at a buffet.
Do fewer and fewer websites support RSS? All blog frameworks have support by default...
No, people just assume that they don't have one due to no RSS icon. `/feed` slug is standard for finding feeds these days.
Equally, why not just use one of the many FOSS tools to scrape sites that don't offer RSS feeds and DIY your own? This is a long-solved problem; RSS remains wonderful.