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Check out Wikipedia's "Current events" section [0]. I feel it does the best job of providing the relevant factual updates about the world without all of the dra
by symplee 7y ago
Check out Wikipedia's "Current events" section [0]. I feel it does the best job of providing the relevant factual updates about the world without all of the drama, clickbait and gossip.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
- samizdis 7y agoNice resource. Thanks for the recommendation.
- nathcd 7y agoSide note: I really enjoy browsing wikipedia's portals. The sections on them (like on the Main Page) like 'Did you know...', 'Selected article', 'Selected quote', 'On this day...' are really nice to peruse, and are a nice complement to the type of content in normal articles. I remember reading at some point (though I can't find it now) that portals were sort of considered a "failed experiment", but they've become some my favorite places to casually browse.
- toomuchtodo 7y agoSomeone should turn this into an email newsletter!
- bradgessler 7y agoI made a more readable version of this at https://legiblenews.com/ https://legiblenews.com/ (works on mobile, supports dark mode, formatting is more readable, loads in under 200ms w/ 1 request and absolutely no JS) which scrapes Current Events once per day at 8p Pacific Time. I jokingly say “it’s a news website where if you click on a link, you might accidentally learn something”
- sygma 7y agoThis is great. Thank you for making it! Maybe you could run that cron job more often for people on the other side of the pond? Right now, I'm only seeing news for Saturday.
- bradgessler 7y agoI’ve thought about that, but I intentionally want only one update per day to limit the “I gotta check the news” addiction and I’ve lined up the publishing to approximately when Wikipedia starts a new day.