Hacker News Reader

Comment by captn3m0 | Hacker News Reader

I made a plain-text no frills news website for India: https://news.tatooine.club/

It shows news only from the last two days, there’s no infinite scrolling, no images, very little JavaScript, no ads, and no tracking.

It has trigger warnings, let’s you hide specific categories (like sports), and grays out read articles (unless they get an update).

It has slack-like highlight words to highlight news that you care about. I highlight news about Bangalore, or Google for eg.

I check it once or twice a day, and I get just enough news that I care about.

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This is excellent to use! Can you add news specific to states - like Haryana, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, etc.? And also specific cities, like New Delhi, Hyderabad, Chennai, Trivandrum, etc.

I just set highlight words for cities and states I care about and that works well enough. (Bengaluru/Bangalore/Karnataka)

The source is a national news app so anything important enough for other metros does show up.

This is amazing! Can you extend this to a) allow choosing regions and b) provide some weekly digest kind of thing where the news items from the past week are summarized?

Also, what's your source of info btw?

I mention it in the about page, it’s based on a recent Indian news shorts app called Beatroot (“be true”).

I haven’t looked at other regions, but there’s already some good plain text news websites for US/UK - https://greycoder.com/a-list-of-text-only-new-sites/

I don’t wanna add a summary, or in general host older news - the more news there is to read, the more time you’ll spend. I don’t want that. It’s like a newspaper, if something important enough happened this week that you missed - the news will still be reporting on it.

On desktop I was confused for a second, not realizing you can click the headlines -> you can use "cursor: pointer;" in the CSS to avoid that :)

I use <details> so it should have a helpful arrow in some browsers. Need to find the right mix, will try cursor, but that impacts selection.

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