Show HN: Bit of News – Intelligent news summaries

For a long time I've wanted a new source that will only show me stories that are likely to be relevant in a year. If no one is going to care or remember something in a month, then I'd rather just skip it. Portal:Current_events is as close to that as I've found.

What I love about it: very short summaries with the most important details about stories that people might still care about in a year, no sensational or partisan headlines, one click to excellent summaries of the issues, and I can easily catch up after missing a few days, whereas many news sites make it hard to see what they looked like even yesterday.

Take for instance the top story on bitofnews.com. The Portal:Current_events summary is:

"<a>A roof collapse</a> at a grocery store in <a>Riga</a>, Latvia, kills more than 50 people."

So it's more up to date than the bitofnews summary that has "at least 32," and if I care where Riga is instead of reading "Riga, which is the biggest city in the Baltics and its biggest seaport" I can click the Riga link and see a map and photo and population etc. If I want to know about the ongoing event, I can click the "a roof collapse" link and I'm presented with a pretty good summary of the issue.

I'm happy to see more news sources like this appear though. My only problem with the Portal:Current_events is that it doesn't have a good RSS feed and if I check it more than once a day, or mid-day, then it can be hard to see what has changed since my last visit.

I actually have been working on an app that wakes you up in the morning with a voice reading your schedule for the day, the weather and the latest news, and the API for this looks perfect to fill the last part.

I don't check it all that often, but I like getting a summary of recent news by browsing the bots user page every so often. Was saddened to see it inactive for the past two weeks.

[0] http://www.reddit.com/user/bitofnewsbot

http://infobitt.com

(Unsure if that'll be its launch name, and there's certainly room for multiple approaches in the faster/fairer news space.)

I would check out Twitter bootstrap or look for a font, that's the only thing that I dislike is the times new roman font. For a website that's focused on consuming text summaries, efficiently reading / understanding is important, and having a readable clean font is too :D

Rise of Bitcoin: Is the digital currency a solution or a menace? (+video)

The Christian Science Monitor - Yesterday

She downloaded the software that would allow her family-owned floral shop/cafe to accept BTC, as Bitcoin is known.

I'd love to know what the tech behind this is like.

http://tldr.io/discover

Celebrity news.

I won't subscribe again unless there's a "nothing trivial" policy.