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Ask HN: Is there an app/site that curates news weekly

17 pointsdroyson15 comments

A little bit of backstory: Recently I read/listened to Make Time by Jake & JZ, in which they mentioned that daily news is overrated and only checking news once in a week should be sufficient. This has stuck with me.

Now I'm looking for an app/site that will curate news weekly. All the apps that I've looked into (Google news, Apple news, NewsInShorts, etc.) serve the purpose of instant news. I can check the news once a week but that means only the most recent news is served up and I need to scroll way down for older relevant articles.

Is there a site that curates news of 1 week and serves in level of relevance.

Thanks for reading and any help is appreciated

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https://www.slowernews.com

Even more slow paced. It's like a generalist and slow HN once most articles appeared there. I couldn't find something similar so I built it... RSS, quarterly newsletter[0] and open source[1].

[0] https://slowernews.substack.com/

[1] https://github.com/slowernews/slowernews

Thanks. This might be the one thing I've been looking for.

https://legiblenews.com/

This is daily, but published only once. Same idea of what you’re asking for, plus no tracking and it loads each page with 1 HTTP request (no images, JS, etc.)

Some of the points you touch on are addressed with https://legiblenews.com/about/

If you're not against "Old Media" and classical liberal ideas, I'd suggest just getting an Economist subscription.

I second this. IMHO it’s a great publication.

I've also been looking for something like this. I find that most news outlets are trying to maintain a high volume of stories so you get lots of uninteresting stuff (my definition is fairly strict and includes homicides, most building collapses, most severe weather and other things that I don't feel has an impact on my life) and continuously repeat stories on incredibly minor updates (for example I don't need to know about every little fluctuation in the COVID trends).

I feel like the optimal amout of news for me would be low single-digit articles a week. Ideally with both Canadian news and global news but I would be happy for something global-only if I could find it.

In the UK we have The Week magazine, which does pretty much that? The idea is to subscribe to its print edition, rather than read it online.

https://www.theweek.co.uk/

Sadly I'm not in UK but thanks anyways

The Economist in print would be my recommendation. There's a team of salty meat space professionals behind it. Not an algorithm driving clicks.

It's a case where you get what you pay for.

I've looked for this same thing and haven't been able to find one I liked. The weekly model definitely seems missing in the market (you can certainly see the incentives at play.)

What I use instead is the current events page on Wikipedia and just scroll back the appropriate number of days.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

I built a daily view of this at https://legiblenews.com/

I’ve now had a few requests for a weekly view, so I might as well build it!

What else would people want to see from this? Weekly email delivery? A mobile app that updates once weekly? Whatever it is, put it in this thread or open an issue at https://github.com/legiblenews/community/issues

You know what I would really like is an editor. When I read it I'm the editor as I skip over all the stuff that's too verbose. Obviously that's a hard problem picking on what is or isn't newsworthy though.

I used to like to watch Euronews because of that, they wrapped up stuff, and were able to deliver it pretty quickly - like you'd get a great snapshot of what was happening in the world.