News Minimalist – Only significant news
Hey HN, author of the site here!<p>Happy to answer any questions.<p>(below is the project description I used when posted about it on Reddit)<p>The problem I have with most news sites is that I can't read only important news: an article about a virus outbreak is followed by some celebrity gossip or another smartphone release.<p>But even on sites that focus on important events articles are posted every day and there are always "top headlines" — even on days when nothing important happened.<p>I am forced to make a choice: waste time going through unimportant updates or ignore the news and miss important events.<p>So I built a web app that I think solves this.<p>It uses AI (ChatGPT-4) to read the top 1000 news every day and rank them by significance on a scale from 0 to 10 based on event magnitude, scale, potential, and source credibility.<p>The results are posted on the site: <a href="https://www.newsminimalist.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.newsminimalist.com/</a><p>I also run a newsletter where I post summaries of all the news with a score over 6.5. On average that's 1-3 articles per day, but sometimes it is 5, and sometimes — none at all. In that case, I just send an email saying that nothing important happened that day.<p>You can read previous issues here: <a href="https://newsletter.newsminimalist.com/" rel="nofollow">https://newsletter.newsminimalist.com/</a><p>Let me know if you have any feedback or ideas. I'm considering adding new features and looking for direction.