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1) wow, what a great piece of art.

2) Buy as many DVDs as possible and shrink the size of your window. Instant win.

I have struggled with the negative aspects of news as well and personally think there is a middle route over cutting it out.

I built attabit.com to summarize the news for friends, family, and myself to remove as much sensationalism, bias, and 'junk food' as possible.

The site has been having all kinds of problems today with the claude 3.5 sonnet outage but outside of that, its become the main news source of high level news for me and a lot of my friends and family.

It lets you know what's happening without getting sucked into it. If you check it out, let me know what you think?

This is implemented now. It will skip stories you heard earlier in the day. Will add a feature to relisten to everything hopefully this evening.

Thanks for checking it out and commenting!

This is a v1 for friends and family -- its not done. If you think those news services are 'propaganda machines on payroll of US elites' can you please get to work building an alternative? Thanks.

Thanks for checking it out and commenting. Its been a rough news day or two on the site unfortunately. This is definitely something I'm thinking about. Best idea I have at the moment (which is implemented) is to cover great science/tech advances as well. That's kinda the most positive high impact news out there.

If you have any ideas on where to find more positive need-to-know news, I'm definitely all ears.

Thanks for checking it out and commenting!

I 100% agree with this and have been thinking of how it can be solved. I think embeddings open a new opportunity to get this off the ground. Worried it will include too much noise by default (Does every Elon story in chronological order come up with the latest Tesla news? Maybe? Maybe only if the target of the article is Tesla?)

You're right news is bad at this, its too hard without new tools to solve. This is a great feature request. I'll get to work. Thanks again.

10 years from now I definitely think we'll have personal AI's in our pocket updating us on what's going on. They will cater to our preferences and (i hope) heavily look into stories while telling us about them.

The best future is where everyone gets a super powered reporter in their pocket.

Hey Joshka! Thanks for checking it out and commenting. I like the one article per page format over a click -- easy to scroll along and see what I want without much interaction. I get why someone might want different though or prefer no images. V1 of the site was full black and white newspaper style with many columns -- closer to what you're saying.

Thanks for checking it out and commenting!

THAT would be really cool. Especially with voice while its reading the articles to you.

Thanks! Topic filtering definitely on the way. Sentiment is a really cool idea -- especially if you want to filter by it. Will have to think about that.

My thoughts on language/country: Will stay away from this from now and focus just on English US. I'm a one man shop and this is fully a side project. With the low concern of misreporting something, I want to make sure I understand everything on the site.

Would be required in the long term vision though for sure.

Thanks for checking it out and commenting!

@guizzy has it right. Much more unlikely to hallucinate because all of the information it needs is submitted in the API request -- its actually explicitly asked to not come up with anything new.

Of course though this is a concern that needs to be closely watched as AI summaries become more common in the world.

Its currently 'expensive' ($3 per day) for the individual user level to run this but once you open it up to a one to many model, that's extremely reasonable.

Recording and editing the audio alone would be a massive expense and the code does this multiple times per day all for under a dollar.

But the individual costs will surely come down as models get better. I'm not sure what the plans are yet for it but I'm hoping to make it useful to people.

This is all fantastic feedback thank you for checking it out and taking the time to comment!

Funny you mention the 'Resume' part, I just had to take that out because iOS was blocking a new mp3 file from playing without a direct touch input from a user. (I get why they do this but man was I disappointed). I have an idea on how to add it back it. It should 'skip' playing articles with a checkbox because you've read or listened to them already. Will get this one down -- I want it too.

Thank you again! My email is on the site, please don't hesitate to reach out if you think of anything else. Its really just some friends and family who like this thing at the moment so excited to share it.

Glad you liked it! Thanks for checking it out. Very US focused at the moment for sure. Having it be more personalized would be awesome -- in a sense that's what I've built for myself here -- long term I (or someone) have to give that to the people. "Search the internet for me and tell me what's happening"

Hey thanks for checking it out! No API, lots of scraping and GPT decides what important stories to cover. Lots of GPT requests but it's cheap and does a great job.

Thanks for the notes and for checking it out.

Right now it obviously just covers existing news articles but the future (of this or something like this) is for each news story to be a reporting on what's happening separate from what any individual news source says. Maybe it checks multiple news sources, their primary sources, social media etc. Ideally it would do the work to determine what is happening and what is relevant for you -- many searches around the internet per story.

Not sure how to pull this off but 10 years from now I feel like that would be the norm? And it would personalize it to anything you want in any tone you want. You want honest news in the style of a pirate? Arrr-here ye go.

Thanks and this is awesome!

Some questions I have after trying to solve a similar problem, ok if you'd rather not share: Are you using OpenAI/GPT for summaries? Are you selecting articles to go in this or is the process entirely automated?

I like the future plans to alert users when something relevant to them appears in the news. That could be very useful beyond cybersecurity (though very useful for cybersecurity)

+1 to this. Strongly recommend a glance of the paper for the images.

Two things that worked for me. (Not a doctor, not a psychologist, do your own research, etc etc.)

1) Dihydromyricetin - This is a supplement which helps your body digest alcohol that which can lead to less hangovers. For me specifically? It completely removed any craving I had for a drink within a week. Without hangovers the next day, I was left feeling just tired and crappy but without feeling horrible. This was a full game changer for me.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CX60CMA/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

2) After you actually stop drinking, there's another hurdle of dealing with the social setting where everyone else is drinking and you are not. Unfortunately most non-alcoholic options out at a bar are pretty limited -- selzer w/ lime, cranberry juice, just a soda. However, at home, a ton of options for mocktails are popping up. For me, these fully fix any remaining craving to sit down and enjoy a beverage. Would recommend Seedlip or Three Spirit

https://www.seedlipdrinks.com/

https://us.threespiritdrinks.com/

Definitely don't hate yourself when you fail. There's a huge industry interested in getting you to drink alcohol and its the only drug you have to explain why you're not using. It has an odd hold on us.

Good luck!

I work in election night reporting. While it’s easy to assume malice, so often it’s just that election officials haven’t entirely thought things through. It’s not an easy job and in the past 4 years, positions no one has cared about are being scrutinized by the whole US and election technical teams now have to worry about election interference from foreign governments. And all of their work comes down to one day where anything that can go wrong does.

Sure it’s possible that this was a voter suppression attempt as I’m seeing in the comments. But much more likely they found a last minute bug that would have screwed them on Election Day, so they took the site down.

There are much more effective ways to stop people from voting. See https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/10/20/politics/gwinnett-county-...

Did the exact same thing. I don't know what I thought SpaceX was going to give me for free. But I was excited about it.

Scanning the title I quickly thought "Duh of course you can". But the complications of that have been eating at me for an hour now.

I can imagine of world of horrible patent trolls who have AI generating "art" constantly just so they can claim the work for themselves when a human artist creates something similar.

Thinking much further into the future: what will be really freaky is when society decides that only the AI has the right to copyright the AI's work.