Re:Ask HN: What good alteratives are there to Google News?
by Nothorized on Monday July 10, 2017 @02:03AM
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Is the code open source ? I live in Europe, and it would be great if, with the same product, we could choose the time at which we want the news to be delivered, and the language in which we want it delivered.
Re:Ask HN: What good alteratives are there to Google News?
by bradgessler on Monday July 10, 2017 @04:08AM
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Its not OSS at the moment.
I've thought a lot about this use case. My vision is that a few KB of text is delivered once per day to whatever-device at a desired time. No more. No less.
What language and locale would you be interested in?
Re:Ask HN: What good alteratives are there to Google News?
by leipert on Monday July 10, 2017 @08:58PM
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Both the English and the German wikipedia, maybe something along the lines of:
Re:Ask HN: What good alteratives are there to Google News?
by qznc on Monday July 10, 2017 @02:12AM
(#14733742)
I made a similar one in german. At the bottom is a link to the GitHub repo. It relies on Cron and Neocities.
Re:Ask HN: What good alteratives are there to Google News?
by kxyvr on Monday July 10, 2017 @02:31AM
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Thanks for putting that up! Have any interest in piping that page into an RSS document?
Re:Ask HN: What good alteratives are there to Google News?
by jboynyc on Monday July 10, 2017 @06:08AM
(#14734648)
Here's a similar project that provides a lot of different formats: http://thecontext.net/
Re:Ask HN: What good alteratives are there to Google News?
by bradgessler on Monday July 10, 2017 @04:01AM
(#14734133)
Sure, I could do this within the next few weeks (time is my constraint ATM; technically this is simple)
Re:Ask HN: What good alteratives are there to Google News?
by ycombinete on Monday July 10, 2017 @01:13AM
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Stunning. Thank you, very much.
Re:Ask HN: What good alteratives are there to Google News?
by twosheep on Monday July 10, 2017 @06:14AM
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Your archive seems to be a bit out of date
Re:Ask HN: What good alteratives are there to Google News?
by bradgessler on Monday July 10, 2017 @05:06PM
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Yeah, it misses a few months. I'm going to fix this and make the archives go back a few years.
It scrapes headlines from Wikipedia once per day at 8p PST. It's encrypted. There's no ads. It loads fast, as-in one request. Your activity isn't logged.
I built this because I got tired of all the shitty tricks news websites play: obnoxious ads, "breaking news", auto-play videos, pumping megabytes of crap into your browser, lack of privacy, and lack of citations.
Legible news is boring. It's non-addictive. If you click on a link you might accidentally learn something about the historic context of a news story. I don't log anything because I don't care. Daily headlines delivered in one HTTP request (look at it in an inspector) over a CDN. It's fast. I hope you like it, but if you don't no worries, I built it for myself.