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Re:Show HN: Real-time AI news aggregator with daily digest by adrianwaj on Thursday September 03, 2026 @01:21PM (#49553481)
Make it more info dense like Techmeme https://share.gemini.google/DUSuli5XiIMJ

Have a vertical scrollbar

Add rss

Masonry grid (or offer layout selector) https://share.gemini.google/gAvGtSnQ9i8b

Auto-updates so people can just leave it open in a tab and check without refresh effort

Provide bare-bones brutalist theme option, keeping only vital information

Alternate name: l.A.t.I.v / LaTiV - Vital backwards

Just my tips

Re:Show HN: Real-time AI news aggregator with daily digest by michelmi on Thursday September 03, 2026 @01:46PM (#49553842)
Thanks for the feedback! I'll definitely review each one and think if/how can I implement them. There's definitely some tradeoffs on every decision but I'm on the phase where I'm iterating looking for the best UI/UX.
Re:Show HN: Real-time AI news aggregator with daily digest by adrianwaj on Thursday September 03, 2026 @02:37PM (#49554581)
Yeah, long-term I also would look at building a viewport into the local-first Fediverse, which seems to look like an email client. https://gemini.google.com/app/5bf267d0285b01a1

And promote sharing through it.

Re:Show HN: Real-time AI news aggregator with daily digest by adrianwaj on Friday September 04, 2026 @02:31PM (#49568384)
OK. One final idea would be to have a single river-of-items in a readability presentation of full articles. No summaries, just scroll down or jump through each item. Best of luck with it, thanks.
Re:Show HN: Real-time AI news aggregator with daily digest by gneuron on Thursday September 03, 2026 @07:15PM (#49558448)
the way you do information density btw is say "include all unique insights, facts, figures, data points, predictions, timelines, and otherwise important information with 100% fidelity"
Re:Show HN: Real-time AI news aggregator with daily digest by adrianwaj on Friday September 04, 2026 @03:27AM (#49561602)
Yep, then from that I would have an options panel to toggle only the things you want to see.

The other thing I would do on AIbriefs is have spacebar shift the card-list viewport right to the top and hide the top-most card.

This way reading the site entails loading the page and hitting spacebar after each card is read. This can already be done with Hackerbrain user-script while reading top-comments for any HN item - spacebar or clicking an item's green badge.

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/588721-hackerbrain-sidebar...

Re:Show HN: Real-time AI news aggregator with daily digest by michelmi on Friday September 04, 2026 @08:43AM (#49563783)
Thanks, this is useful. I'm working rn on a toggle to have a dense view.
Re:Show HN: Real-time AI news aggregator with daily digest by adrianwaj on Sunday September 06, 2026 @12:18AM (#49583279)
Yeah, I would move the top bar to the side as that is valuable real-estate for the news and I would also make the shifts instantaneous.

See here: https://tinkeri.ng (use enter key)

- note the layout-switcher top right

About full articles - this could be a toggle switch. Perhaps have an options panel somewhere. Allow for hiding of much of the content. Have a 'bare-bones' preset.

Re:Show HN: Real-time AI news aggregator with daily digest by michelmi on Sunday September 06, 2026 @09:48PM (#49592899)
Thanks! I'll review this. I may add a compact-view that it's more 'bare-bones' and more like your proposals.