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

Open Safari. Browse to https://washingtonpost.com/ (which paywalls nearly everything). In the address bar, press the jigsaw puzzle icon, and then the Hyperweb icon. Make sure that you've given it permission to access every website. Source: over 1 year ago

Source washingtonpost does this work mods? Source: over 1 year ago

Quite the contrast to the video of the police shooting that young man in his own house in his own bedpolice shooting of unarmed black man. Source: over 1 year ago

I do not want a different app for https://cnn.com, https://nytimes.com, https://dailymail.com.uk, https://nypost.com, https://washingtonpost.com, https://news.google.com. Why not just use a web browser instead to read web pages? Modern web browsers can display individual pixels where ever they like, what is this utter fascination with an "app" written in a different language which makes it legitimate or better? ... Source: over 1 year ago

"An emboldened cast of anonymous trolls spewed racist slurs and Nazi memes onto Twitter in the hours after billionaire industrialist Elon Musk.."[washingtonpost.com]. Source: over 1 year ago