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Comment by Ciantic | Hacker News Reader

I wish news sites had a periodical system built-in.

One could choose the period, e.g. 7 days to the past, and see all important news from that time-frame.

It would of course require a human to tag the news as important within a period. Subscriber only feature would suffice.

That sounds exactly like a weekly news magazine. There are quite a few that are worth reading, if you want to follow the news. The slower publishing pace allows a greater perspective and context on most stories that is missing on 24/7 channels.

Could you post some examples? Specifically ones that center on world news and not only the US / Europe.

The Economist. Albeit overtly liberal (in European sense), the content is well written, well discussed and subscription policy is great.

The Week [1] is an excellent subscription magazine that comes every Friday to my door. It's UK-centric, but has international news as one of its many sub-sections.

[1] http://www.theweek.co.uk/

There's actually a US edition as well, found at theweek.com.

This is more difficult than it sounds. The curation part, anyway. "Important" is a pretty subjective, and flexible, term. Something that might seem innocuous now could well have far-reaching ramifications twenty years from now.

Agreed. I tried a 7 day most popular section on http://skimfeed.com and I just couldn't get the algorithm personal enough to be useful. 24 hours seems to be the sweet spot for users.

For Hacker News, you can do something similar by visiting

http://www.hckrnews.com

once a week and scan "Top 10" news for the last week and check out the articles that pique your interest.

I believe those are called "weekly newspapers" :)

It's not, 7 days to the past from current day is not last week. The period should be adjustable for example 14 days or arbitrary number.

You may like Newslines, we curate news by time. http://newslines.org/

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