sumi.news Reviews and details

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• Ask HN: How to Make News Aggregation Work in 2024?

  No clue, because the general quality and incentives of the news business is so terrible. I enjoy Techmeme[1] and sumi.news[2], though. 1. https://techmeme.com/river 2. https://sumi.news. - Source: Hacker News / 8 days ago

• Ask HN: How do you get important news faster? Do you care about it?

  Two things I read: https://sumi.news/ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events Just for a quick sweep. Then I open Twitter/X and browse to my local news site. This takes at most 5 minutes to skim world (and local) events and catch up. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Is there a site similar to Hacker News, but for "General News"?

  Sumi News[0] is a good non-biased sweep of current events, aswell as Wikipedia's current events page[1] [0] https://sumi.news/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Ask HN: How do you discover new things on the internet in 2023?

  Https://www.producthunt.com/ (For new SaaS products and interesting books) https://sumi.news/ (One quick sweep of current events) https://pinboard.in/popular (Everything that is trending on the web) And of course, Hackernews (I regularly browse /newest when I am feeling serendipitous). - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Ask HN: Flat world news, like NYT HN

  This is the second time I've mentioned it today, but https://sumi.news might fit the bill. It is run by a HNer, although I can't remember their username offhand. - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• Ask HN: News.google Alternatives?

  I run a Google News alternative, https://sumi.news – let me know what you think. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Apparently I have been doing it wrong.

  Gotta love 'em, the only folks besides sumi.news who are keeping the RSS feed alive! Source: about 1 year ago

• Ask HN: RSS Feed for Comments?

  Https://sumi.news shows separate links for comments and the article. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Ask HN: How do you read articles and newsletters?

  I use https://sumi.news so I can read everything grouped by day. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: What‘s the most basic, objective news site/aggregator?

  I subscribe to Financial Times for general news, and I read it in an RSS reader (https://sumi.news) which also aggregates updates from other sites I'm interested in (like HN). - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: How do you decide which bugs to ship?

  For practical purposes it is achievable. I’ve used Safari, Notes, Reminders, and Calendar daily for years and have never encountered a bug. Same with my time tracking and invoice software. I have also never knowingly shipped a bug for my service https://sumi.news, and have fixed every bug brought to my attention. Tolerating defects is little more than apathy and a lack of quality standards and craftsmanship. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Replacement for Google News?

  Take a look at my service https://sumi.news — you can follow topics, individual RSS feeds, and newsletters. No ads. Simple interface. It’s bootstrapped and profitable, been running for a few years, and I keep interface churn to a minimum. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Why your website should be under 14kb in size

  Https://sumi.news HTML is ~14KB when transferred with compression. The CSS is ~30KB. I could probably slash that in half if I optimized. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

  Https://sumi.news – it’s cool because it’s made for skimming. It’s just headlines, grouped by day and source. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Any good alternatives to Google News?

  Sumi.news is handy. The default is quite lengthy but you can customise it https://sumi.news/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Show HN: Top Links from Hacker News, Reddit, Techmeme, PH on a Single Page

  Similar but more for general news is https://sumi.news/, which has more sites and groups the stories by site. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• 11 Companies That Use Haskell in Production

  While I’m just a small one-man shop, I use Haskell for https://sumi.news Anyone else using Haskell to run a SaaS? - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Ask HN: What are you using for a RSS Reader?

  I use https://sumi.news because I like to read feeds grouped by day. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• No News Is Good News

  This is why https://sumi.news is grouped/filtered by day. I like to browse by day once or twice a week. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• No News Is Good News

  As Mark Twain once said, “If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.” Which is a hard problem. Personally though, I do a quick skim of the news each morning just so that I know we haven't nuked each other to death or that a new pandemic-like world event hasn't happened. I enjoy Reuters, Associated Press, and a local news feed for my area. Sumi.news[0] is... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Ask HN: What do you use as your go-to source of world news?

  Why not read from a collection of different sources from around the world? That's what I do with https://sumi.news. If you want a single source, I would choose a publication that isn't driven by advertising revenue, like Financial Times. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago