Run another instance of it on a different tld only for positive news, and I will sign up!
News Minimalist – Only significant news
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#92Hey 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…
The absolute best feature is selecting the LEAST significant articles. Way more whimsey! +1
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#93How exactly does ChatGPT perform scoring of articles? I don’t understand this aspect.
Good question. I gave a small description of it on about page: https://www.newsminimalist.com/about
> For each article ChatGPT estimates:
> Magnitude: how big was the effect;
> Scale: how many people the event affected;
> Potential: how likely is it that the event will cause bigger events;
> Credibility: how credible is the source.
Then I do `Credibility * cbrt(Magnitude * Scale * Potential)`
cbrt = cubic root
Maybe the formula could be improved but I was satisfied with the result, so kept it that way.
Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news
#94How exactly does ChatGPT perform scoring of articles? I don’t understand this aspect.
Good question. I gave a small description of it on about page: https://www.newsminimalist.com/about > For each article ChatGPT estimates: > Magnitude: how big was the effect; > Scale: how many people the event affected; > Potential: how likely is it that the event will cause bigger events; > Credibility: how credible is the source. Then I do `Credibility * cbrt(Magnitude * Scale * Potential)` cbrt = cubic root Maybe…
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#95This is great!
You’re going to get a lot of ‘I want weekly’, ‘I want categories’, ‘I want settings for this and that’ here, obviously up to you to decide if it’s a good fit but I’d assume that a simple feed without much settings is good enough for most people.
From my side the only thing I wished to have once I clicked on the first link is if there were links to de-paywalled websites (I guess Pocket works for that, or webarchive).
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#96It's more like "top world news". It's a nice project OP! I'm just ranting about terminology.
"Significant" has a very personal context. Things that affects significance to me are things like: proximity to my home/work, my hobbies, my age, my financial situation, etc.
For example, if my neighbourhood's crime rate had gone up by 100%, I'd want to see that amongst the top news of the day.
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#97This 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.
Just remember that unless you’re selling an open hardware e-ink RISC computer with a serial interface running Doom, hacker news isn’t representative of your customer base. This goes both for the cheers and the boos.
(Great product/PoC btw, this seems like an awesome application of LLMs!)
Re: News Minimalist – Only significant news
#98It's more like "top world news". It's a nice project OP! I'm just ranting about terminology. "Significant" has a very personal context. Things that affects significance to me are things like: proximity to my home/work, my hobbies, my age, my financial situation, etc. For example, if my neighbourhood's crime rate had gone up by 100%, I'd want to see that amongst the top news of the day.
Thank you! And great point. At first I used the word "important", but I thought importance is personal, so switched to "significant". I guess it also doesn't convey the actual meaning.
I don't like the word "top" because even on the most uneventful day there's going to be something that qualifies as top (because of the lack of competition).
So proper term would probably be "globally significant news" or "news significant to humanity as a whole".
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#99I understand the idea of only wanting to read important news, but I’m not sure I agree about what counts as important. Maybe no individual bit of celebrity gossip is important, but would this site have picked up any of the #metoo stories? They certainly indicate an important cultural shift, but it feels like the site would only count it as significant when they had a financial impact on a film studio or something.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Wow, thank you! I'm just a frontend dev and know almost nothing about this.
Will research vector similarity, sounds like the solution I need.