Semi-related: Wikipedia's homepage also contains a very minimalist, manually curated news section with only major world events:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
Although that's perhaps way too minimalist?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
Although that's perhaps way too minimalist?
I was disagreeing a lot with their selection of news, for example one of their recent entries is:
"Two people are killed and eleven others are injured when a bus flips on its side on a highway near Prenzlau, northeast of Berlin, Germany."
My system gave it a significance score of 1.8, so similar news should never get to the main page: https://www.newsminimalist.com/articles/two-dead-and-four-in...
Does your service do a good job at thinking longer term? Would you have an example of this?
A couple recent examples:
[Significance 6.7] China outlines ambitious space strategy to surpass US by 2050 [1]
[Significance 5.9] Scientists explore ocean floor findings that could reveal oxygen on other planets [2]
[1] https://www.newsminimalist.com/articles/china-outlines-ambit...
[2] https://www.newsminimalist.com/articles/scientists-explore-o...
Not trying to have an edgy take here, it comes from a genuine attempt to use it for this exact purpose, but it didn't work at all. A train crash killing 20, as unfortunate as it is, can't possibly be one of the 5 most significant things that happened over the last week, but Wikipedia current events considers it one.