Https://legiblenews.com once per day for major news headlines. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

Another great option is legiblenews which provides headlines from Wikipedia edits and is a bit dry but informative. I remember when Trump was president he was mentioned on legiblenews[1] a handful of times during his term while the mainstream media gyrated with his every move. It made me realize how little of the day to day news cycle has meaningful impact on the long term history of the world. [1]... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

I took this approach for https://legiblenews.com/ and https://www.thingybase.com/. The art on Thingybase is all poorly drawn stick figures. Not only do I recommend doing this when building apps or websites initially, but I recommend it for the final product. It ends up being much faster, easier to maintain, easier for people to read, and more accessible. I have another app in the works that’s using... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

I am in the (upper end) of the 18-25 demographic and I completely understand how you feel. Without social media, without constant news (I get my news from Legible News), and without constant notifications it can be easy to feel a little out of the loop or "different" from others. Source: about 1 year ago

The big images don't add anything IMO, I like a https://legiblenews.com/ style better. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

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 / 28 days 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 / 3 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