Re:Show HN: News Minimalist – All news ranked by significance
by maeil on Saturday January 18, 2025 @12:53AM
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I hadn't seen this comment and just wrote pretty much a mirror one - Wikipedia overly focuses on one-off accidents and events, rather than news with long-term implications.
Does your service do a good job at thinking longer term? Would you have an example of this?
Re:Show HN: News Minimalist – All news ranked by significance
by yakhinvadim on Saturday January 18, 2025 @01:20PM
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It's hard to measure, but I see such stories sometimes, mostly in technology and science.
A couple recent examples:
[Significance 6.7] China outlines ambitious space strategy to surpass US by 2050 [1]
[Significance 5.9] Scientists explore ocean floor findings that could reveal oxygen on other planets [2]
[1] https://www.newsminimalist.com/articles/china-outlines-ambit...
[2] https://www.newsminimalist.com/articles/scientists-explore-o...
I was disagreeing a lot with their selection of news, for example one of the recent entries there is:
"Two people are killed and eleven others are injured when a bus flips on its side on a highway near Prenzlau, northeast of Berlin, Germany."
My system gave it a significance score of 1.8, so similar news should never get to the main page: https://www.newsminimalist.com/articles/two-dead-and-four-in...