News Minimalist – Only significant news

Post by amoss » Wed, May 03, 2023, 6:08 AM UTC

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #43

KMnO4 wrote: post #2

Very cool! > “Today ChatGPT read 1289 top news and gave 13 of them a significance score over 6/10.” Is an excellent hook. I wish there was more of a basis on the score it chose. For example: > “Russia suffers 100,000 casualties in Ukraine conflict, US estimates.” is #2 and ranked 6.8 > “White House estimates Russia has suffered 100,000 casualties in Ukraine since December.” is #237 and ranked 3.8.

Agreed on the point, but your example brings up a different problem for me. 100,000 dead Russians, is very likely the propaganda number. Maybes it’s right; maybe it’s not, IDK, but I know that there has been zero negative Ukraine news since the conflict started (ghost of Kiev anyone?), and the media machine definitely only works one way on this topic. I mean, Russia isn’t the good guy here, but I don’t excuse propaga…

Post by RamblingCTO » Wed, May 03, 2023, 6:17 AM UTC

Pilottwave wrote: post #56

Very 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 enabl…

Post by sanitycheck » Wed, May 03, 2023, 6:29 AM UTC

Post by teodorlu » Wed, May 03, 2023, 6:40 AM UTC

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…

Post by yakhinvadim » Wed, May 03, 2023, 6:50 AM UTC

kqr wrote: post #52

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 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?)