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Comment by alberth | Hacker News Reader

I've completely cut out watching/reading news, with 1 exception.

https://www.newsminimalist.com

I stumbled across it on HN sometime back.

Someone created an AI model to consume daily, thousands of news sources, scores the articles and lists what it's highest scored for the day.

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Ironically, APNews use to work this way. They provide a "relevance score" for every news article they published/reported so that other outlets could use that score as a signal on what they should report on.

Problem is, all other news outlet are disparate for eyeballs, so everything becomes "breaking news" regardless of the news relevance score.

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The links are all to biased, bad, sources and the headlines already have the bias baked in as well. I don't really see how this solves the problem. If this went a step further and summarized the articles while stripping out the bias, then I think it would be a lot more useful. Very interesting concept though.

True, there is an overwhelming amount of the guardian links, covid (?) and climate related news, if you stay at between 7-10 or 8-10

You might also consider the human curated alternative, the Wikipedia "Current events" portal [0]. It does not include very many topics, but it hits all of the big stories that are likely to be significant after the dust has settled.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

Even on Wikipedia, notice how all the news is dominated by disasters, crime, etc (And sports, which is the only type of news allowed to be positive).

We live on a planet with 6 Billion people. We’re living in the most peaceful time in history. And there isn’t anything positive to cover? I don’t know if it’s necessarily a conspiracy, but there is definitely some kind of mind virus going on in modern society.

> We live on a planet with 6 Billion people

Hate to be the bearer of bad news buddy, but we're at 8 billion...

Why is that bad news?

Thanks for sharing newsminimalist. I've unknowingly built nearly the same thing but more visual with additions like maps and images. Similar to Yahoo News Digest from years back.

I like the "relevance score", it would be interesting to implement something similar to that.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quill-news-digest/id1669557131

Nice recommendation. I also really like http://68k.news which claims to be: "Basic HTML Google News for vintage computers"

IDK if using a minimalist aggregator actually solves anything. The links all go back to the same crappy sources.

Oof I saw sports as the 4th thing on the list. I consider that a failure.

Wish it looked better on my phone. No reader mode :/

This "news" site is absolutely useless as the top "news" is just a bunch of whinging about climate change and covid19. Even the genres don't get rid of it, as selecting "world" brings up climate change. "general" brings up covid19, etc.

That's a shame. How could most of the popular news be such nothingness?

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