yakhinvadim

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   by yakhinvadim 2y ago

   The default sorting is "new first", but perhaps a better first impression would come from selecting "more significant first": https://www.newsminimalist.com/?sort=significance
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   Show HN: News Minimalist – News ranked by significance(newsminimalist.com)

   84 points by yakhinvadim 2y ago|60 comments
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   by yakhinvadim 2y ago

   I made News Minimalist — a news aggregator where all news is ranked by significance on a scale from 0 to 10. The ranking lets readers select a "significance threshold" and ignore all news below it. It's making close to $1000
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   by yakhinvadim 2y ago

   Thanks for the callout! (I'm the founder) I already have the "positivity" scores for each article, so I'll add a separate "positive and significant news" page in the coming weeks.
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   by yakhinvadim 3y ago

   Thank you so much! Hope to fix it soon.
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   by yakhinvadim 3y ago

   Author here. I plan to add a "how it works" section, but the basic idea is that each news story is rated on several parameters: - scale is the number of people affected by the event described in the news story. - magnitude is the
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   by yakhinvadim 3y ago

   Hey, author here. That was the initial idea. Significant events don't stop being significant once we get tired of hearing about them. But there's definitely a problem of duplicates. When separate news sites post about a similar ev
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   by yakhinvadim 3y ago

   Hey, author here. Yeah, the initial idea was to uncover globally significant news, but a lot of people are asking for ways to find "locally important" or "industry important" news. So I'm shifting my direction a lit
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   by yakhinvadim 3y ago

   I'll just fix the link... https://www.newsminimalist.com/
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    by yakhinvadim 3y ago

    Thanks for the great link, I included it in today's issue: https://newsletter.newsminimalist.com/p/friday-may-5-nothing...
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    by yakhinvadim 3y ago

    Great idea, I already dim visited links, but it'd be nice to also mark items as done where just reading the title was enough.
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    by yakhinvadim 3y ago

    Thanks! Yeah RSS it not great currently. Replied about it here with more info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35820032 Oh, exactly the same problem. The straightforward implementation would make me broke in month :) H
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    by yakhinvadim 3y ago

    Thanks for the feedback. All great points. "RSS" that I have currently is generated by the email platform that I use for daily emails. It's not a proper RSS from website. Making a proper RSS for website items is on my list, b
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    by yakhinvadim 3y ago

    It's a bit longer, but that's the gist of it. I just realized, for that particular news article about Regenerative medicine it was my mistake all along. I asked ChatGPT to give unknown sources a score of 1 and completely forgot ab
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    by yakhinvadim 3y ago

    You are spot on. I use temperature 0, but even with it, ChatGPT can be unpredictable. Sometimes I'm very frustrated about the news that get to the top. When I try to debug it, it gives me a completely different score. I considered usin
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    by yakhinvadim 3y ago

    Seems like someone bought it and set up a redirect to newsminimalist.com Thank you kind stranger!
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    by yakhinvadim 3y ago

    Thank you! I asked for GPT-4 access via form on OpenAI website, they gave me the one with 8k context window, which is enough for 99% of articles.
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    by yakhinvadim 3y ago

    In the ChatGPT prompt I make emphasis on evaluating article from the perspective of humanity as a whole, not prioritizing any individual country. But still, it's not ideal. I don't know ChatGPT's logic, but it might be it&#x2
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    by yakhinvadim 3y ago

    I think it's because I only analyze news in English currently. I was thinking of adding other languages to the evaluation and ask GPT to translate them. It should at least partially fix the US bias.
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    by yakhinvadim 3y ago

    Thank you! All great suggestions — will try to add them soon (wasn't really ready for the unexpected launch on HN, but glad it went this way, got a much clearer vision for the future)
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    by yakhinvadim 3y ago

    I score each article individually, so there's no need to put many news in one context window. In 99% cases a single news article fits within the context. I drop those that don't fit, since several examples I saw were announcement
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    by yakhinvadim 3y ago

    Good point, filters are essential (category, source, maybe country). Will try to add them soon.
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    by yakhinvadim 3y ago

    It's not open source. Dark mode is already there, but it follows the system settings, no manual toggle.
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    by yakhinvadim 3y ago

    Thanks! It's Chart.js: https://www.chartjs.org/
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    by yakhinvadim 3y ago

    Wasn't aware, thank you. Can't find anything in logs, is it still down for you?
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    by yakhinvadim 3y ago

    Nice catch. Just checked that article — it actually got rating 2.8 just based on the news content, but the source credibility 1/10 brought it down to 0.3. I don't think it's fair, I think ChatGPT hallucinated that it's a
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    by yakhinvadim 3y ago

    RSS: https://rss.beehiiv.com/feeds/4aF2pGVAEN.xml (some people had complaints about formatting there, will try to fix soon)
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    by yakhinvadim 3y ago

    Just published today's issue: https://newsletter.newsminimalist.com/p/wednesday-may-3-3-si... I bet spam algorithms didn't like that I sent email to 30 people yesterday and 900 people today. Good problem to h
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    by yakhinvadim 3y ago

    Here's the one generated by email platform (will work on improving it, some people had complaints) https://rss.beehiiv.com/feeds/4aF2pGVAEN.xml
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    by yakhinvadim 3y ago

    True for today, many US-centric news made the cut. But that's not always the case. Here's recent issue with no US news: https://newsletter.newsminimalist.com/p/tuesday-april-25-3-m...