Ask HN: Is there an app/site that curates news weekly

Posted by droyson on Saturday September 25, 2021 @03:11AM
from the ask-hn dept.

A little bit of backstory: Recently I read/listened to Make Time by Jake & JZ, in which they mentioned that daily news is overrated and only checking news once in a week should be sufficient. This has stuck with me.

Now I'm looking for an app/site that will curate news weekly. All the apps that I've looked into (Google news, Apple news, NewsInShorts, etc.) serve the purpose of instant news. I can check the news once a week but that means only the most recent news is served up and I need to scroll way down for older relevant articles.

Is there a site that curates news of 1 week and serves in level of relevance.

Thanks for reading and any help is appreciated

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Re:Ask HN: Is there an app/site that curates news weekly by galfarragem on Saturday September 25, 2021 @04:15AM (#28651442)

https://www.slowernews.com

Even more slow paced. It's like a generalist and slow HN once most articles appeared there. I couldn't find something similar so I built it... RSS, quarterly newsletter[0] and open source[1].

[0] https://slowernews.substack.com/

[1] https://github.com/slowernews/slowernews

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Re:Ask HN: Is there an app/site that curates news weekly by droyson on Saturday September 25, 2021 @06:56AM (#28652103)

Thanks. This might be the one thing I've been looking for.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there an app/site that curates news weekly by bradgessler on Saturday September 25, 2021 @07:09AM (#28652149)

https://legiblenews.com/

This is daily, but published only once. Same idea of what you’re asking for, plus no tracking and it loads each page with 1 HTTP request (no images, JS, etc.)

Some of the points you touch on are addressed with https://legiblenews.com/about/

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Re:Ask HN: Is there an app/site that curates news weekly by Sanguinaire on Saturday September 25, 2021 @04:23AM (#28651479)

If you're not against "Old Media" and classical liberal ideas, I'd suggest just getting an Economist subscription.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there an app/site that curates news weekly by cpach on Saturday September 25, 2021 @08:40AM (#28652699)

I second this. IMHO it’s a great publication.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there an app/site that curates news weekly by kevincox on Saturday September 25, 2021 @07:10AM (#28652153)

I've also been looking for something like this. I find that most news outlets are trying to maintain a high volume of stories so you get lots of uninteresting stuff (my definition is fairly strict and includes homicides, most building collapses, most severe weather and other things that I don't feel has an impact on my life) and continuously repeat stories on incredibly minor updates (for example I don't need to know about every little fluctuation in the COVID trends).

I feel like the optimal amout of news for me would be low single-digit articles a week. Ideally with both Canadian news and global news but I would be happy for something global-only if I could find it.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there an app/site that curates news weekly by nanna on Saturday September 25, 2021 @03:54AM (#28651355)

In the UK we have The Week magazine, which does pretty much that? The idea is to subscribe to its print edition, rather than read it online.

https://www.theweek.co.uk/

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Re:Ask HN: Is there an app/site that curates news weekly by droyson on Saturday September 25, 2021 @06:47AM (#28652070)

Sadly I'm not in UK but thanks anyways

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Re:Ask HN: Is there an app/site that curates news weekly by brudgers on Saturday September 25, 2021 @08:34AM (#28652652)

The Economist in print would be my recommendation. There's a team of salty meat space professionals behind it. Not an algorithm driving clicks.

It's a case where you get what you pay for.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there an app/site that curates news weekly by f0e4c2f7 on Saturday September 25, 2021 @10:03AM (#28653308)

I've looked for this same thing and haven't been able to find one I liked. The weekly model definitely seems missing in the market (you can certainly see the incentives at play.)

What I use instead is the current events page on Wikipedia and just scroll back the appropriate number of days.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

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Re:Ask HN: Is there an app/site that curates news weekly by bradgessler on Saturday September 25, 2021 @01:08PM (#28654619)

I built a daily view of this at https://legiblenews.com/

I’ve now had a few requests for a weekly view, so I might as well build it!

What else would people want to see from this? Weekly email delivery? A mobile app that updates once weekly? Whatever it is, put it in this thread or open an issue at https://github.com/legiblenews/community/issues

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Re:Ask HN: Is there an app/site that curates news weekly by f0e4c2f7 on Saturday September 25, 2021 @05:48PM (#28656496)

You know what I would really like is an editor. When I read it I'm the editor as I skip over all the stuff that's too verbose. Obviously that's a hard problem picking on what is or isn't newsworthy though.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there an app/site that curates news weekly by libertine on Saturday September 25, 2021 @06:05AM (#28651894)

I used to like to watch Euronews because of that, they wrapped up stuff, and were able to deliver it pretty quickly - like you'd get a great snapshot of what was happening in the world.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there an app/site that curates news weekly by cdo on Saturday September 25, 2021 @10:44AM (#28653568)

https://theweek.com/

Great weekly summary, we've enjoyed the print version for years.

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Re:Ask HN: Is there an app/site that curates news weekly by kosasbest on Saturday September 25, 2021 @08:30AM (#28652615)

Not weekly, but daily and rounds up all the best tech news:

https://tldr.tech/

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