yakhinvadim

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by yakhinvadim 1y ago
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.newsminimal
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by yakhinvadim 1y ago
Founder here, thanks for the shout out!
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by yakhinvadim 1y ago
There's https://www.newsminimalist.com/ where 30k news articles per day is ranked by significance, maybe it's what you're looking for?
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by yakhinvadim 1y ago
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.
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by yakhinvadim 2y ago
Can't share the full prompt, but I share methodology on the about page: https://www.newsminimalist.com/about
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by yakhinvadim 2y ago
I'm sorry for plugging my project twice in this thread. But what you're asking sounds extremely close to what I made: https://www.newsminimalist.com/ If you want fewer stories (by default it shows about 25 a day),
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by yakhinvadim 2y ago
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.
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by yakhinvadim 2y ago
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 signific
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by yakhinvadim 2y ago
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 g
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by yakhinvadim 2y ago
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 expl
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by yakhinvadim 2y ago
I don't oppose these ideas, but it's a matter of priorities. There's just many other features and improvements to implement that seem more valuable.
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by yakhinvadim 2y ago
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
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by yakhinvadim 2y ago
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 inj
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by yakhinvadim 2y ago
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=significa
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by yakhinvadim 2y ago
What you're describing is super close to the first version I had! In the beginning I had 3 parameters: scale (number of people), magnitude (degree of change for those impacted) and additionally potential (how likely is this event to tr
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by yakhinvadim 2y ago
Thank you so much! Always glad to see long-time readers. There was a period when I considered switching to an open-source model, but every time I was ready for a switch, OpenAI released a smarter and often cheaper model that was just too go
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by yakhinvadim 2y ago
I actually agree that "true" significance can only be estimated in hindsight. My goal with this project is not to get "true" significance but to have a setup that gets you 90% of the way there: an automated system that f
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by yakhinvadim 2y ago
Summaries are done for a single article. I think it's better this way — a summary is a clear reflection of an underlying article, where all statements can be easily tracked to a single original source. That makes LLM hallucinations ext
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by yakhinvadim 2y ago
Yeah, the category names don't convey the meaning behind them very well. There's no intentional focus on US. "World" includes everything that talks about two or more countries. "Nation" is a category with news
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by yakhinvadim 2y ago
I think the main differentiator for my project is news selection. Most other aggregators show news based on 1) relevance, 2) upvotes or 3) coverage. Relevance-based algorithms tend to put reader into a bubble, where the more they read on a
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by yakhinvadim 2y ago
Good point! I actually have this exact question on about page [0], I'll copy my thoughts from there: I separate significance from importance (or relevance). Importance is subjective. News about the health of my family members is import
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by yakhinvadim 2y ago
To your point about raw data - I wasn't expecting there to be so much junk in news. I think I automatically filter out like a third of articles that I get: historic recaps (something cool happened 50 years ago), round-ups (Here's
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by yakhinvadim 2y ago
It's actually available in paid subscription! Users asked for it a lot, mostly to block the recent political drama in US and Ukraine/Russia, Israel/Palestine conflicts. https://www.newsminimalist.com/premium#b
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by yakhinvadim 2y ago
Thanks! I mainly rely on Paid APIs, but additionally go over some RSS feeds for prominent sources that they don't cover. Wikipedia current events page was actually one of the reasons for creating this project! I was disagreeing a lot w
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by yakhinvadim 2y ago
Thank you! I think LLMs are really underutilized as a "judgement tool". A couple similar ideas people reached out to me with were: evaluating which pull requests are more significant in a big repo, or which grant applications have
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by yakhinvadim 2y ago
I know it's not going to be popular, but to cover the cost of running ChatGPT on that many articles, I made it a part of a premium subscription: https://www.newsminimalist.com/premium#rss
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by yakhinvadim 2y ago
Ah, I didn't know it was a thing! I'll add it to HTML head.
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by yakhinvadim 2y ago
It'd be interesting to see, but I don't fully trust ChatGPT to rate historic events that it already knows are significant. A much more fair comparison would be between events that it doesn't have in it's training data. B
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by yakhinvadim 2y ago
This rss is not exactly an rss with articles from the main page, but a newsletter I send manually every few days once enough significant stories happen to warrant an email. Each newsletter issue includes 2-5 main articles and 3-7 trending a

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