Would be great to make the significance threshold an adjustable parameter. Personally I think a site like this should have way less than 1-3 articles/day - probably closer to 0.1.
News Minimalist – Only significant news
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#82Would be great to make the significance threshold an adjustable parameter. Personally I think a site like this should have way less than 1-3 articles/day - probably closer to 0.1.
It is possible currently! There's a slider under the chart that let's you adjust that. For now it doesn't save the position though.
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
The estimate is 100 000 casualities (20k dead and 80k wounded), and it seems to be correlated with several different intelligence sources. The number is news because Russia is waging a large-scale invasion of another country using cannon fodder tactics. Reporting on that invasion is not simply propaganda.
> The estimate is 100 000 casualities (20k dead and 80k wounded)
Since December
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#84RSS feed would be nice for those who prefer that over email. Otherwise looks great!
Here's the default one from the newsletter platform, but some people had complaints about it: https://rss.beehiiv.com/feeds/4aF2pGVAEN.xml Will try to improve it.
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#85You could also just read the Financial Times.
Yeah, today there were many economy articles that ChatGPT found significant. But in the past issues there were more articles about health, science and environment.
Recent example: https://newsletter.newsminimalist.com/p/tuesday-april-25-3-m...
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#86Nice job! The high-rates articles all seem weighty. 0.5/10 might be the sweet spot for best of the worst. - WWE Draft 2021: Triple H announces draft picks and new brand exclusivity. - Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson reunite at 2023 Met Gala. - Vladimir Putin's lover Alina Kabaeva makes rare appearance at gymnastics event in Siberia. I’d love to see some dials to find even worse news in the future. :)
Strangely i enjoyed it more like that also but it's probably not the goal :)
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#88Hey 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…
Great idea and well executed - well done!
I actually created a site - https://detoxed.news - with a very similar philosophy a while back, though with a much simpler implementation. It periodically scrapes Wikipedia's Current Events Portal (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events) and presents that information in a nicer format.
I think there's definitely a sweet spot where you keep well-informed about current events and happenings in the world, without wasting your time on the 24 hours new cycle.
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#89Very 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.
Yeah, I'm still thinking about the scoring. Initially I asked ChatGPT to estimate three things: event scale, event magnitude and event potential. That often resulted in clickbait articles going to the top. To fix this I started to also ask it to estimate source credibility, so tabloids would get much lower score than, say New York Times. Now you noticed another problem, similar articles get very different scores. I t…
You could deduplicate based on vector similarity within a few days (7 days for big stories as their news cycle is longer, 24 or 48 hours for smaller stories).
Idea: The number of stories within a cluster weighted by credibility of the source could be another element of the rating.
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#90This is awesome. It actually works out that when you reduce the "importance" you get more pop culture, tech, etc news which is just amazing. Would easily pay 10$ a month for this in its current state.
Really? I can't sustain this website for long without some income, and I don't want to put ads, so this is great to hear.