News Minimalist – Only significant news
Hey HN, author of the site here!Happy to answer any questions.(below is the project description I used when posted about it on Reddit)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.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.I am forced to make a choice: waste time going through unimportant updates or ignore the news and miss important events.So I built a web app that I think solves this.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.The results are posted on the site: https://www.newsminimalist.com/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.You can read previous issues here: https://newsletter.newsminimalist.com/Let me know if you have any feedback or ideas. I'm considering adding new features and looking for direction.