yakhinvadim
Joined 4 years ago
Joined 4 years ago
Because the significance is determined by an LLM, it surfaces many stories that are usually missed by major media.
But what you're asking sounds extremely close to what I made: https://www.newsminimalist.com/
If you want fewer stories (by default it shows about 25 a day), adjust the slider to a higher significance threshold.
I think there will always be some hallucinations until they're solved on a model level, but I'll also try to nudge AI now to be more precise with the headlines.
I think it worked quite well, there's only about 10 headlines a day (out of 15k+) that get a significance rating higher than of 5.5 out of 10.
It also helps avoiding the overfocus on western issues and actually learn what's happening around the world.
Three men occupy table without eating at busy food court
A video taken by a Singaporean Stomper shows three men playing games on their mobile phones while seated at a dining table in a crowded food court. The group did not have any food or drinks on the table, and despite the lunch crowd, they did not give up their seats to those waiting for a table. The incident occurred at the newly-opened Sinfoodie food court at Tai Seng Street, which is known to be very busy during lunch.
https://www.newsminimalist.com/articles/d8a34b64-3486-4a45-8...
A couple recent examples:
[Significance 6.7] China outlines ambitious space strategy to surpass US by 2050 [1]
[Significance 5.9] Scientists explore ocean floor findings that could reveal oxygen on other planets [2]
[1] https://www.newsminimalist.com/articles/china-outlines-ambit...
[2] https://www.newsminimalist.com/articles/scientists-explore-o...
It's available via RSS too: https://rss.beehiiv.com/feeds/4aF2pGVAEN.xml
I attempted to make a weekly version, but quickly dropped the idea. Over the course of the week articles often became outdated (not just old, but plain wrong).
I found that an optimal newsletter schedule is sending it about every 48-72 hours, depending on how eventful that period was. With this frequency, the articles rarely become outdated, and at the same time it's not too frequent to get tired of.
I was disagreeing a lot with their selection of news, for example one of their recent entries is:
"Two people are killed and eleven others are injured when a bus flips on its side on a highway near Prenzlau, northeast of Berlin, Germany."
My system gave it a significance score of 1.8, so similar news should never get to the main page: https://www.newsminimalist.com/articles/two-dead-and-four-in...
The default feed sorting is done for regular visitors (new first), for evaluating the output you might like the "significant first" more: https://www.newsminimalist.com/?sort=significance
On that list, the ceasefire article is on the second place out of the ~40k articles analyzed.
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Having more variables is an good idea. I don't have an immediate vision on how to use it in the UI (I want to keep it minimal), but will think more about it.
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I've been really torn on free trial. I currently offer a refund guarantee, but will add a trial as well soon.
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