Hi HN! For my senior thesis in CS, I built an SMS-based application to make journalism more accessible. It works like this: 1) You text the topics you're interested in to my phone number. Every day, you'll receive a text with 5 headlines from The Associated Press (https://apnews.com/) related to those topics. 2) If you have questions about any of the current events the headlines describe, you just text them back.... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

Observe how news media treat story like this. https://time.com - first page, main story, no photos https://www.reuters.com - no mention https://apnews.com - first page, 2nd block in list, no photos https://www.nytimes.com - second page, tiny block in list, no photos https://www.washingtonpost.com - second page, tiny block, no photos https://www.theguardian.com/world - no mention https://www.aljazeera.com - first... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

If someone links to an article on the Associated Press's site (apnews.com) I'm fine with that. Source: 6 months ago

Same thing on apnews.com. I am afraid it is widespread. Source: 7 months ago

IRAN-US PRISONER SWAPAP has reported that Iran and the US are poised to exchange prisoners after a figure of $6 Billion has been “unfrozen” and forwarded to Qatar who are acting as an “honest broker” to facilitate the asset swaps with the receipt of the funds confirmed by Nasser Kanaani a spokesman for the Iran Foreign Ministry before he went on to confirm the swap would take place later today. At this stage... Source: 9 months ago

The future has been here for a while. Source: over 1 year ago

That's what I did for my personal SMMRY lib. 100% outweighed by the value of my time spent on it but I enjoy not paying for APIs. Source: over 1 year ago

This is done by autotldr[1] which is powered by smmry[2]. Smmry is pretty neat actually ! [1] http://autotldr.io/ [2] https://smmry.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Thanks but that's supposed to be free to view? That's what it said as covid-fare. You might like this for your toolbar. Source: over 1 year ago

Ah, but you see, if it isn't in the headline, it should be in the top few comments. Or, if I'm really pressed, I can always use https://smmry.com/ which made u/autotldr. Source: over 1 year ago