Also recently added an OAI-driven trending cluster view on BizToc (https://biztoc.com/hot)
News Minimalist – Only significant news
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Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news
#52Hey 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 an awesome idea and I'm kicking myself for not thinking about it before. Very creative.
Have you made any attempt at quantifying its biases? Both whether it considers left- or right-leaning articles more significant and where it focuses most of its reporting. (Economy and the US from a first glance?)
Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news
#53Hey 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’d love for there to be sections, such as science, business, politics, etc.
Similar aesthetic, different execution, but you could check out brutalist.report
Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news
#54Hey 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…
Hi and congrats, that's a great idea ? Is your project open source by any chance ? And if so, are you open to contributions ?
Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
I noticed some bias because I only analyze sources in English. It should be easy to make ChatGPT also read news in other languages, maybe that will help. Is that what you meant?
It also seems to be very US-centric and seems to put a strong focus on reporting on the economy. I personally found nothing particularly relevant to my existence featured on the site. These two biases are probably indicative of a host of other, less obvious biases. To be clear: all media is biased, because it is created by biased humans and it has been well demonstrated that algorithms replicate the biases of their c…
The recent one is economic focused, but if you look back it does focus on other stuff like Starship launch, climate, health, geopolitics, energy etc.
Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news
#56Very nice I have subscribed to test it out for a couple of weeks.
I would love a simple mobile app, it's just easy to tap your news app on a phone, ideally with a way to customize the notification timing. I have certain moments each day when I want to consume this type of content (breakfast, lunch break)
A small community driven comment section with Karma system would also be nice. I like to discuss news and it enables knowledgeable people to add some additional insights. See the dutch tech news site for inspiration. they explain their karma system here: https://tweakers.net/info/faq/karma/#tab:1-2
Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you decide how aggressively to summarize? That is, a 200-word summary of an 800-word article is very different from a 200-word summary of a 5,000-word article. Relatedly, it would be neat if you had a slider or +/- buttons for each article summary, so someone could choose their depth based on how interesting the title sounds.
I don't decide it. I just ask chatgpt to "summarize the article very concisely" and hope that it won't lose any important points. But chatgpt is really good at summarizing, so I don't worry much. Having +/- buttons is a good idea, will add it to todo list as well.
I assumed you did one llm batch a day and served it to all users. With +- buttons wouldn't you need to re-engage the llm?
Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news
#58Any 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.
Could you make a feed that posts one news article per post, rather than one day per post?
That is, for a day with 5 news, post 5 times on the feed, one for each.
I'm using a RSS reader that only shows the title of each day (and not the body of the post), and right now it's showing only
> Tuesday, May 2 — 4 significant news
> Only significant news. All signal, no noise.
But I would like to be able to skim all headlines in the RSS reader itself
(I know I could probably make a custom RSS feed out of this though)
Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news
#59Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't decide it. I just ask chatgpt to "summarize the article very concisely" and hope that it won't lose any important points. But chatgpt is really good at summarizing, so I don't worry much. Having +/- buttons is a good idea, will add it to todo list as well.
I assumed you did one llm batch a day and served it to all users. With +- buttons wouldn't you need to re-engage the llm?
Could just ask the model for 5 lengths/levels of detail per article and have the +/- switch between them.