I made a similar project where all news is ranked by significance on a scale from 0 to 10.

Because the significance is determined by an LLM, it surfaces many stories that are usually missed by major media.

https://www.newsminimalist.com/

Founder here, thanks for the shout out!

There's https://www.newsminimalist.com/ where 30k news articles per day is ranked by significance, maybe it's what you're looking for?

I made News Minimalist (https://www.newsminimalist.com/), where I deduplicate and rank ~30k articles a day. For each story the most credible source is picked. Might be what you're looking for.

I tried to solve this problem by making AI rank the stories by significance and rewriting the news titles in a boring, factual style.

I think it worked quite well, there's only about 10 headlines a day (out of 15k+) that get a significance rating higher than of 5.5 out of 10.

It also helps avoiding the overfocus on western issues and actually learn what's happening around the world.

https://www.newsminimalist.com/

I love the idea of this tool, but there are serious issues with using LLMs to summarize articles and text. Re: Apple’s Notification Summary Debacle

For example, this headline with a score > 5 is flatly incorrect.

“China launches innovative flying robot to explore Moon's south pole for water resources”

Every article listed in the summary says the launch is planned for 2026.

Thanks! Good point.

I think there will always be some hallucinations until they're solved on a model level, but I'll also try to nudge AI now to be more precise with the headlines.

Thanks for newsminimalist - other than what comes up on HN it's the only news I read these days. It's usually just enough to keep me in touch without any of the outrage.

I did the same too, but by ingesting Wikipedia's current event portal. The result is a decent balance of world events, but without the sensationalism.

https://detoxed.news/

https://github.com/tom-james-watson/detoxed.news/

Can I make the significance my choice?

To me a news site curates news that impacts me directly or things I can do something about. This could be in a scale too. 10 is water main is broken on my street, while 0 is a car crash on the other side of the planet.

Neat! Sounds similar to another app I've used: https://www.boringreport.org

That's a pretty cool website! What prompt do you use to determine what is and isn't significant?

Can't share the full prompt, but I share methodology on the about page: https://www.newsminimalist.com/about

why can't you?

This is my all time favorite:

Three men occupy table without eating at busy food court

A video taken by a Singaporean Stomper shows three men playing games on their mobile phones while seated at a dining table in a crowded food court. The group did not have any food or drinks on the table, and despite the lunch crowd, they did not give up their seats to those waiting for a table. The incident occurred at the newly-opened Sinfoodie food court at Tai Seng Street, which is known to be very busy during lunch.

https://www.newsminimalist.com/articles/d8a34b64-3486-4a45-8...

I think the closest thing to what you want is the newsletter I send 2-3 times a week: https://newsletter.newsminimalist.com/

It's available via RSS too: https://rss.beehiiv.com/feeds/4aF2pGVAEN.xml

I attempted to make a weekly version, but quickly dropped the idea. Over the course of the week articles often became outdated (not just old, but plain wrong).

I found that an optimal newsletter schedule is sending it about every 48-72 hours, depending on how eventful that period was. With this frequency, the articles rarely become outdated, and at the same time it's not too frequent to get tired of.

But that's a thing: if the article becomes outdated during the course of the week - was it even important for me to read? Assuming I'm not a daytrader or anything like that

Wikipedia current events page was actually one of the reasons for creating this project!

I was disagreeing a lot with their selection of news, for example one of their recent entries 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...

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?

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...

Thanks for the deep feedback!

The default feed sorting is done for regular visitors (new first), for evaluating the output you might like the "significant first" more: https://www.newsminimalist.com/?sort=significance

On that list, the ceasefire article is on the second place out of the ~40k articles analyzed.

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Having more variables is an good idea. I don't have an immediate vision on how to use it in the UI (I want to keep it minimal), but will think more about it.

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I've been really torn on free trial. I currently offer a refund guarantee, but will add a trial as well soon.