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Re:Show HN: 22 top US newspapers in an RSS OPML list by newman8r on Monday June 11, 2018 @05:31AM (#17282944)
Yeah I can see how that might bog down a newcomer, that's not bad advice. You could also import the 22 feeds and delete any that seem to be posting too often for your taste.

A rough estimate is that these 22 feeds would generate about 300-600 stories a day.

Re:Show HN: 22 top US newspapers in an RSS OPML list by krick on Monday June 11, 2018 @06:12AM (#17283099)
By my experience, you don't even need all 22 to feel overwhelmed. I still haven't found one news agency with a feed that would feel like "important news". Actually, all the news are simply the worst, and getting worse still. All the most prominent media resources manage lately to combine in a news feed tell-you-nothing headlines, lengthy writing style of the newyorker w/o a summary, and still not including a recap/timeline of previous events when following up on something that's ongoing for the last 2 months. Plus, I do understand that importance is somewhat a matter of perspective, but they still manage to post some nonsence every 2 minutes, while not covering really impactful business news/economic events.
Re:Show HN: 22 top US newspapers in an RSS OPML list by namibj on Monday June 11, 2018 @09:59AM (#17284220)
I considered creating a service that you subscribe to and that gives you reasonably detailed content filtering. With configurable classes to sort news between e.g. newsletters and chatbot interfaces, based on how time-critical they are. There are meta-agreggators like GDELT [0] that supply machine-readable classifications that should somehow allow filtering useless stuff out based on what they contain. Do you think there is significant demand for this, possibly even in a way that you pay a (small) amount for the service?

It seems like a (comparably) sane idea to pursue, but pre-implementation market validation is a strong motivator to prioritize work on it without direct financial pressure.

[0]: https://www.gdeltproject.org/

Re:Show HN: 22 top US newspapers in an RSS OPML list by kthejoker2 on Monday June 11, 2018 @09:29AM (#17283981)
This was the original intent of Vox.com ... and here we are. Think we're in the minority of the reading audience, unfortunately.