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start.me mentions (14)

• Need Browse start page / extension manager suggestions.

  I really like how start.me works as it is URL based I can easily make it the default new tab and home page. Source: almost 2 years ago

• App for bookmark managing on Chrome?

  I love start.me (https://about.start.me/) . Source: about 2 years ago

• Privacy respecting external bookmark managers?

  Is it start.me? If that is the case, I am concerned about their ads. When I go to my bookmarked URL, I notice that Instead of opening the bookmakred URL(e.x reddit.com ), my ADguard DNS server blocks this malicious site: redirect.start.me/xxxidealo.dexx . I know that you can block all these with Ublock but without it, oh no. Source: over 2 years ago

• Ask HN: How do you build your personal start page?

  My subscription to http://start.me has been worth every penny I pay for it. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Could we have more than 12 tiles for favorite sites on the new tab?

  I'm using start.me. You can have more bookmarks and you can organize them in different groups. You can also sign in in different devices and use the same layout. Source: over 2 years ago

AP News mentions (114)

• Show HN: A phone number to text with questions about current events

  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

• US Air Force DevOps Engineer Sets Himself on Fire in Protest War in Gaza

  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

• Why are social media platforms still allowing this bs on their sites?

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

• ESPN redirecting to systemmeasures.life on Chrome

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

• DAILY GEOPOLITICAL INSIGHTS: The Geopolitical News Roundup & Analysis for Monday, 18th September 2023

  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