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Comment by bradgessler | Hacker News Reader

I created https://legiblenews.com/ because of this frustration ... and took it all the way to the level where loading a page is exactly 1 request.

The other frustration I’ve had with news websites is they don’t link to source material, so it’s impossible to dig into a topic and accidentally learn something.

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I like the way you make the categories. Finally, someone calling a spade is a spade.

Eg. "Disasters and accidents" had disasters and accidents.

It did highlight how much of our news isn't the most uplifting of topics however.

I like it. However given your goal of delivering sane and lighweight news articles you might want to extend that mission to the selection of your sources and consider excluding some. For the Boris Johnson story you link to The Independent, which returns a 14 MB article (while autplaying is disabled in Firefox) and basically has become a collection of worst practices when it comes to user experience and web development. Surely there must be better sources for popular stories like these.

The data comes from [Wikipedia's Current Events portal][1], so the site's author isn't directly choosing those sources.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

Cool site Brad.I havent heard of it.

Nice!

This would be slightly more legible if there was a clearer distinction between the tags introducing each item and the text of the item itself.

Also, it would be more usable if the dates in the URLs were numeric and international-style (ISO-8601 / xkcd-1179).

But nice!

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