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by raamdev 1128 days ago
News Minimalist:

> It uses AI (ChatGPT-4) to read the top 1000 news every day and rank them by significance on a scale from 0 to 10 based on event magnitude, scale, potential, and source credibility.

https://www.newsminimalist.com/
1 comments
testHNac 1128 days ago
Most of the articles in top 10 seem to be about Ukraine. I understand the war is significant, but 5 articles in Top 10 ?

3 articles in Top 20 about Israel ?

They should work on how exactly is the significance determined, and significant for whom ?

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yakhinvadim 1128 days ago
Author here. I plan to add a "how it works" section, but the basic idea is that each news story is rated on several parameters:

- scale is the number of people affected by the event described in the news story. - magnitude is the strength of the effect. - potential is the likeliness of the event to lead to other, more significant events. - source credibility considers how trustworthy is the source, and what is its track record.

Then these parameters are combined into a single score.

Also fair criticism re: repeats. I plan to solve this by clustering similar news, so one event is only given one title.

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rkangel 1128 days ago
Significance is obviously subjective, but you can definitely make an argument that "major world power is trying to take over a country" is significant. It's been going on for a while which makes it harder to feel like it's so important, but it really is.
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yakhinvadim 1128 days ago
Hey, author here.

That was the initial idea. Significant events don't stop being significant once we get tired of hearing about them.

But there's definitely a problem of duplicates. When separate news sites post about a similar event it get rated relatively similar by ChatGPT, which creates clusters like we see today.

I want to solve this soon by combining similar stories into single block with one title.

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rkangel 1128 days ago
That's another problem I had noticed from a bit of a play (similar problem with boringreport), so I'm glad you're already on it! I've signed up for premium.
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yakhinvadim 1128 days ago
Thank you so much! Hope to fix it soon.
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