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Show HN: Journali.sm, a Newsfeed for News

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69 pointsjaredwiener40 comments

A chronological feed without ads, how refreshing!

I have a related idea. There could be an open, machine-readable format websites could publish updates in; and clients that could consume these "feeds" in the way the user chooses. We could call it really simple syndication, or RSS for short. Site owners could even include ads if they want, embed podcasts or videos, and offer different feeds for different topics.

Evidence of these "feeds", as you insist on calling them, was put here by the Devil to upset and confuse you.

I have a PWA that will clear all that up for you, friend.

No ads yet

RSS, it's catchy. I like it.

"Where has this been all my life?"

It will never catch on! /s

For sites who haven't seen the light yet, there is RSS Bridge.

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!

This was a little weekend project, essentially to be like your social media newsfeed, but actually for news. Let me know what you think

Looks great, and the only thing I could ask for is a way to request that more sources be added.

Agreed! Is there anyone specific?

As far as bringing in some UK sources that were traditionally print, I'd probably go with The Guardian and the Telegraph - caveat, they do have a left- and right- leaning bent, respectively. There might be an AP feed you can get in addition to Reuters so people have more newswire options.

How is this any different than Dave Winer's River of News which has been around for over five years?

https://github.com/scripting/river5

It's a hosted service with multiple categories rather than FOSS you can self-host (with public examples).

I don't think it doesn't deserve to exist just because something else is already doing something similar.

More pictures of Pelosi?

This is pretty cool, and it suits how I consume news. The feed only seems to include NYTimes and Reuters. Can I add my own publications or only choose from your list?

Thank you!

Of the publishers in the top stories group, those two seem to push out the most. There are other sections if you click the hamburger. Otherwise you can sign up and choose the sources you want. I'm also open to adding new sources with consumable RSS feeds.

A site in this space that's been indispensable to me for more than a decade now is Memeorandum (https://www.memeorandum.com/). (And they have a tech-news focused version as well, Techmeme: https://www.techmeme.com/)

Which isn't to say that a new entrant couldn't do this stuff better, of course! The more the merrier. I just mean that if your aim is to be the first thing I read every morning, here is who you will be trying to knock off the Iron Throne :-D

Looks like something where you can take free https://newsapi.org json data and put it into a vue.js single view web app in about 2 hours. Good idea. If you add login, signup, saved articles, and paid / ads you would have something.

There is login and signup on the top bar -- you can choose what sources you want to see.

More features to come if people like this

If you're looking for more news sources, happy to hook you up with some extra API credit (https://developers.civicfeed.com/)

very cool. can you email me? jwiener at gmail dot com

Doesn't escape HTML chars properly, at least in titles. I'm seeing one story now with the title "Things we'd change in existing college football playoff".

Oof, that needs to be fixed -- thanks!

On a page that is meant to have the user scroll down to the next news article, and then to the next, and then to the next, it doesn't make much sense to me, to only have the menu and hamburger available on scroll up. I didn't even know it existed until I was reading the HN comments. Is this an actual standard thing, apologies if I'm going off for no reason.

Is this purely in chronological order of publication or is there some algorithm selecting relevant stories and shuffling them to the top?

Right now its chronological-ish. Some publishers post stories with publication dates in the future (I guess its when it will be in the print edition?) so in that case the system goes with when it first saw it. So you'll see in some cases timestamps out of order, because its sorting by a slightly different timestamp.

At some point I would like to sort in a better way -- this was total MVP. Theres a few things I'd like to try to ultimately differentiate this from other aggregators or even RSS readers.

I had a similar idea, but a feed for posts/comments related to those posts from various places on the web like reddit, forums, imageboards, etc.

What would really be great is a integrated night/darkmode for your night readers like me.

Hope they've got their geoblocking in place for if/when the EU decides to axe (non-google) news aggregation via article 11... :|

Also https://www.hvper.com [From the maker of Popurls fame]

Very cool, I've recently been thinking of building something like this. Any thoughts on adding support for Pocket or Wallabag?

to add to pocket, or to read what was already saved?

To add to pocket, specifically for reading on kindle.

I'd be curious what the consequences of the new EU copyright law would be for a site like this?

Very US centric! But a lovely interface.

Good to see it's not full of "5 BERRIES DOCTORS HATE".

Good job! Gonna use.

Like it! Could you let us know the tech stack used to build this?

Thanks! Front end is NextJS on now.sh -- including server side rendering. Backend is AWS. Whole thing is serverless.

I've been working on something similar to this for awhile now, not near completion though. It allows you to subscribe to some websites that include a paywall, for free, including adding your subscription accounts. It's made with Headless chrome and TypeScript.

Sounds illegal/like a violation of TOS.

telescope.surf been doing this, for a while now (I'm pretty much a daily user of that site when I'm on my phone).

The no-bot and old uncle is a cliche by now.

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