While I really appreciate the clean news, it does seem a bit weird to me, because most news stories originate on actual need feeds, like AP Wire, or Reuters. H

While I really appreciate the clean news, it does seem a bit weird to me, because most news stories originate on actual need feeds, like AP Wire, or Reuters. Having done work with those wires, you can see how diverse they are, to the point that you spend more time glossing for your interests than not. HN is a great example of not that model: it's a curated list for targeted readership/ engagement. Edit: and then there's the issue of what feeds to use, so based on some target demographic, some feeds will not be shown (eg some small local community News from outback Australia), this means that it's already semi- filtered/ curated, but in a way that's minimally effective, imho. If they were to take on the news wires head to head directly, and to allow a tiny publication to publish to the news wire: then they'd be onto something!