Show HN: Top headlines of the world to start the day
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I’d rather suggest one of the countless daily morning newsletters that give you a heads up of what’s going on in the world with links to read more. There are also podcasts that do the same. I can’t suggest anything in English but in Italian there’s the 'Good Morning Italia' newsletter and the 'Morning' podcast from Il Post. The latter does a good job trying to actually explain and give context on the current news rather than just repeating the headlines.
I used to have it saved to my Pocket daily using IFTTT, but since I left IFTTT for awhile back, I don't have a reliable way to get it pushed to me every day. Fortunately, they have a newsletter that will send just that to my inbox, so it works out somewhat.
[1] https://theweek.com/us/1010963/10-things-you-need-to-know-to...
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Take a look at the current news for example here: https://yle.fi/aihe/tekstitv?P=194
That's the opposite of clickbait titles. Actual information communicated in few lines. This is the kind of summary I would like to start my mornings with.
Lol
Fyi, there are various "start site" services that let you customize RSS feeds, together with other items like to-do lists, market charts, weather,... considering how many things can be turned into an RSS feed (HN, YT channels, podcasts,...), you've got a pretty well-rounded source of news if you invest a bit of time into the setup, which is actually fun. I've set up a site on start.me five years ago and been using it ever since.
Pointing that out is useful feedback, and I'm sure it would have been done in a much harsher way 10 years ago.
Why is it a problem? I’ve lived years without reading any news and it had no negative impact on my life that I know of.
Nowadays I read news only because I used them as a way to learn Italian, but that’s all.
I try not to equate news with that one truth - it can't be - but rather something towards the truth - or let's just call it "knowing about some event or something in somewhat detail" - and that rather unsavoury exposure often reveals some parts of that perceived truth/knowledge that wouldn't be exposed to me if I didn't read views that are actually exactly opposite to mine, which I can't reconcile with. No one writes absolutely.
Also, being from India I do not try to limit myself to the "English only" news sources -- that is one way to read views which are extremely limiting in the sense of being from within an intellectual ghetto for both - Right and Left; and even the Centre. In fact more so for the Left and Centre because the Right had figured out that the vernacular is where the mass is and that's where their propaganda machine attacked almost a decade ago and then won the country in a swift propaganda coup of lies, deceit and misinformation. While the progressive intellectuals kept bickering in English, often among themselves.
What I meant is -- we should not try to filter news too much, limit our scope and sources for ideas. It's okay to go to and through a mishmash of sources.
And last one 1-2 years has taught me - nothing beats paper sources, even now; print magazines. Online, apps, Twitter, lists and all those shiny gaudy and minimal websites, and what not are just fancy tools to play with or are the refuse for the news obsessed/addicted. Okay, this is taking it a bit too far, but online sources do indeed distract too much and encourages you to scan, rather than absorbing, is too quick, and often leading to endless click/search-athon.
Best thing is that you can choose your reading sources from a large variety, range and interests.
1. War in Ukraine still not over, causes massive spike in worldwide commodity prices.
2. COVID cases and deaths falling. Covid measures being cancelled in many jurisdictions including yours.
3. Something important happening locally. New law passed, etc.
4. Most important science news of the day that will impact my life within the next year. No cancer studies that might cure cancer in 20 years. I don't care.
5. Most important tech news item of the day.
It should be be browsable by region (world - continent - country), by timeframe (year - month - day), by topic (economy, politics, ...) and should group multiple articles for the same event.
Right now it's very hard to find info for questions like "what happened in Africa last month", "what changed in Taiwan last year", etc.
Unfortunately that would probably require a lot of human curation for now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_in_West_Africa#January_an...
Just 5 metrics I want to know every day:
1. Sleep hours / sleep rating for the previous night (good, ok, bad)
2. Projected personal net income this week (total incoming - total outgoing expenses)
3. # New users of my SaaS startup
4. Project company net income this week (total incoming - total outgoing expenses)
5. Birthdays of family / close friends today & this week
A guy builds a news aggregator and shows it on HN, and you purposely click on something you know you are not interested in just to comment that you are not interested in it? Why?
Not everything is for you man.
I’m not sure if crypto counts as major headlines especially if you wanted to find out about it early.
I’d actually see early crypto news as a local interest but local meaning a technical niche instead of geographical.
I still think 99% of major daily headlines won’t affect your daily life. Assuming we ever go back to 2019 boring.
Interesting point, I had not considered that. Locality not just in the geographical sense.
> I still think 99% of major daily headlines won’t affect your daily life.
I agree for the majority of people in other countries. In my case, I live in a developing country with >50% annual inflation. Sometimes headlines here really affect your life, like the govt suddenly prohibiting importing US dollars (e.g., if you work remotely), or requiring 1/3 women to form a LLC so I can't open a business with a male friend when I could yesterday. And this is clearly just following trends from USA/Europe. There are countless other examples.
I'd agree, though, not that these are not strictly "international" news but not local either.
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Might be a good idea to deprioritise, or flag the sources requiring subscription, especially where they are not free.
just 'x' item that you can view but not interact. for instance screenshot of top x posts from hacker news (not that i mind spending time here), or screenshot of x memes from that reddit sub .. and so on
the idea is to keep you from falling down the rabbit hole (doom scrolling or link hopping) and still deliver some value/dopamine
uh... holding up my hand with outstretched fingers how many fingers do you see?
I think it makes sense, especially for the "global" filter (top left corner). Helps you see the different priorities in different parts of the world.
/s
are you getting a cut of their ad revenue?
or just to annoy your potential subscribers?
I think the problem with 24 hour news cycle is that the soundbite interviews with experts often give me a superficial, one sided view into what is usually a multi-sided, complex problem/conflict (if it were so simple then it would have been solved already). Usually the pundit/news source has a strong opinion about the topic and is easily able to steer my opinion through their interpretation and through the inclusion/omission of certain facts.
With this page I can't delude myself that I'll know anything beyond the superficial unless I'm willing to invest in a couple of hours digging through the wikipedia entries.
I mostly use it as a starting point to collect references, but even those will be biased as only the sources that comply with WP definition of reliable will be included.
I suggest always looking at the talk page in controversial topics if you want to look at the other side of the argument.
I don't care for cryptocurrencies too much (I don't have any myself), but I do check out what's happening in the developer community a bit from time to time, as some of the computer science that is happening there is interesting even if you don't work on cryptocurrencies (or own any).