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• The Front Page Weighs More Than Fifty Megabytes

  NPR's text-only site launched in June 2005, originally as thin.npr.org, in response to the September 11 attacks and the spike in mobile readers on early handheld devices. It is still running. CNN runs lite.cnn.com, which serves the most recent hundred stories as semantic HTML with no scripts and no third parties. The CBC runs cbc.ca/lite along similar lines. RSS readers — a category presumed dead by every "web is... - Source: dev.to / 7 days ago

• Ted Turner, cable TV visionary who created CNN, dies at 87

  For those of us who came of age at the start of the web, CNN had a pioneering presence on cnn.com. I still check it pretty regularly due to old habits. (Also https://lite.cnn.com/). - Source: Hacker News / 14 days ago

• Doom from DNS Records

  With iodine you can tunnel TCP/IP over DNS. Really slow but usable for text web sites, gopher, gemini, irc... Gopher -> gopher://magical.fish, gopher://sdf.org... Gemini -> gemini://gemi.dev, it has geminipedia, a web to gemini converter reading sites over gemini at great speeds. Irc -> servers from https://bitlbee.org will allow upon connecting to a registered IRC account to several protocols in the server. For... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• JPEG Compression

  Https://lite.cnn.com/ is the only version you should load :p. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• The 49MB Web Page

  Https://lite.cnn.com seems to load 200KB of CSS. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• The 49MB Web Page

  It’s hard to beat https://lite.cnn.com and https://text.npr.org (I imagine their own employees likely use these as well). - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

• Raspberry Pi and mini PC home lab prices hit parity as DRAM costs skyrocket

  Learn to live with 1GB of RAM. Either CLI/TUI tools, or software like Dillo or Sxiv. Connect to https://farside.link, https://lite.cnn.com, https://text.npr.org or gopher://magical.fish Use mpv+yt-dlp if you are under Unix. Complex? Just a little first. Incredibily rewarding later. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Why I Disappeared – My week with minimal internet in a remote island chain

  I could perfectly survive with gopher://magical.fish, IRC, Mosh, and https://lite.cnn.com and https://text.npr.org at 2.7KBPS speeds. IRC -> Bitlbee.org public servers -> XMPP and more gopher://magical.fish -> huge gopher portal. Gopher://sdf.org and. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• More and more people are tuning the news out: 'Now I don't have that anxiety

  Sharing it because it hasn't been posted yet but CNN has a similar thing: https://lite.cnn.com. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Dial-up Internet to be discontinued

  I know a few news sites have low bandwidth versions, which are arguable way better than the auto-play ads plastered across their “normal” sites. A couple examples: https://lite.cnn.com/ https://text.npr.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• AI overviews cause drop in search clicks

  There are some contrarians. https://lite.cnn.com for example. I'm not a big fan of CNN but this is something I'd like to see more of. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Show HN: Chawan TUI web browser 0.2.0

  Love it! Slightly off topic but I’d love to see a list of mainly text sites. My two favourites are https://plaintextsports.com/ and https://lite.cnn.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Internet traffic during power outage in Spain and Portugal

  In my case, 2G/3G connections with a power outage from 12:30 PM to 14:20 PM in Bilbao. Calls barely work and for the internet, being a doomed nerd I've juse used Lagrange with Gopher and Gemini proxies to the web (News Waffle) in order to read the news because our media outlets didn even fit the sites for the low bandwith, something North Americans are greatly doing with https://text.npr.org and https://lite.cnn.com. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Collapse OS

  I meant, well, not 8 bit capable, but you can send the generated text files to them. On 'gnuplot' for cp/m... Doing a simple chart from X and Y values can be done either from forth or pascal or whatever you have. I'm not stating a solution to read future PDF files. Forget the future ones; what I mean it's to 'convert' the ones we currently have. I'm at a Spanish pubnix/tilde, a public unix server. Here I have a... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Ereader Easy Swedish. Tool I Made for Myself to Learn a Language

  Chuck https://lite.cnn.com/ into whatever language you need it to be. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Show HN: Hacker Herald – like HN but with crowdsourced pics and subtitles

  > "I've sought alternative sources of news with a more old-school look, without success." There are a few news sites that have barebones/low-bandwidth or HTML-only frontends. For example: https://lite.cnn.com/ https://text.npr.org/ https://www.cbc.ca/lite/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Show HN: Hacker News frontpage as a print newspaper that you can personalize

  For the rest of the news in a more HN-like format (at least at the top level) you might like https://lite.cnn.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: What Desktop HN client do you use?

  I would say notifications on replies would be the only thing I'd really want. But I think that helps avoid never-ending replies and bloated comments. At some point it's too much to go through and I move on with my life, which is probably good. > I think if every website has an HN/Craigslist mode it'd be so awesome I think this is why old.reddit keeps living on. It's simply a better experience than their "modern"... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• NBC News Lite Version

  This is a nice trend, here's a couple other text-only mainstream news sites: https://lite.cnn.com/ https://text.npr.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• The Static Site Paradox

  CNN is on https://lite.cnn.com/. The home page is a single 30KB HTML file (my browser also insists on downloading their 6KB favicon). A thing of beauty, compared to their normal home page with 90+ files of 12MB. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Web scraping with GPT-4o: powerful but expensive

  I also had good results with structured outputs, scraping news articles for city names from https://lite.cnn.com for the “in the news” list at https://weather.bingo - code here: https://www.jasonthorsness.com/13 I’ve had problems with hallucinations though even for something as simple as city names; also the model often ignores my prompt and returns country names - am thinking of trying a two-stage scrape with one... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago