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Human voice summary of news #news #voice

Wed, 03 Mar 2021 17:31:00 +0000

There are several news apps which offer automated summary of news, but they don't match the quality of human summarized content like InShorts in India. But they don't offer read aloud feature i.e. voice summary of the news.

I just want to click play and want to listen to the bite-sized news one by one instead of scrolling through them visually. I know that Google Assistant & other voice based assistants do offer news but they are usually auto-summarized web article or snippets from the TV news; both of them are not as good as the human summarized news content.

I would like a service which could convert these text based human summary of news to audio or a human voice summary of news itself.

5 points posted by Ashoka

Get me the news I need, not the news I want #news #information

Thu, 17 Sep 2020 13:21:00 +0000

I'm tired of the hate mongering, cognitive bias rich, mindless advertisement fuelled News media be it on Internet or Television or Radio or even traditional Paper medium.

When I say Internet, I don't mean just the websites, but also mobile Apps with infinite scroll which has put pressure on the News Agencies to produce content at a blistering rate, resulting in low quality content without any editorial oversight or fact checking or even proofreading.

I'm tired of these News medium exploiting my FOMO, I'm convinced that 99.9% of the news I consume every day has just information I don't need, Information I will never use in my life, at least in the foreseeable future. This is after choosing the categories of interest, giving personal information about myself than I should have to the large media companies and thereby advertisers.

I'm convinced that these News media are trying make me someone they want to be, rather than give me what I need.

What does it take to get only the News I need, which will be actually useful for my life?

5 points posted by Andora

Lack of critical thinking when consuming news #news #thinkingaboutthinking

Mon, 11 Oct 2021 20:36:00 +0000

Many people lack trust in news and the time or skill to critically think through each article (for bias, ownership info, alternative perspectives, opinion or more factual). There is a need to reward users for performing functions which would encourage critical thinking to find answers in news and fight misinformation at the same time. 3 points posted by Chamira

Too many email newsletters, hard to manage #newsletter #email

Sun, 23 May 2021 19:29:00 +0000

Email letters is where a lot of the great content is these days. I am personally subscribed to a number of newsletters and it’s been increasingly frustrating to find them crowding out my inbox.

I also find that I don’t have time to read all of them but still want a better way to discover/sort through newsletters I’ve missed when I have a moment.

3 points posted by Ericzhou29

Paywall avoidance for submission sites #monetization #news

Thu, 20 May 2021 05:35:00 +0000

Major online news websites rely upon paywalls for subscription to fund their journalism. But this becomes a hindrance for submission forums like HackerNews, Reddit etc. When the sites with paywall are avoided, the websites looses potentially large number of visitors from these submission forums and thereby potential subscribers.

One trick which is commonly used in these submission sites is to include the archive.org URL of the news article which bypasses the paywall in several news websites but not all e.g. Financial Times, But this results in the news website loosing all traffic from the submission forums.

News websites can disable the paywall based on the source like they do for social media, But perhaps a paywall service which can detect high traffic sources and disable paywall automatically could be useful for these news sites.

3 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Single subscription for multiple news sources #news #subscription

Mon, 18 Apr 2022 14:36:00 +0000

User yummybear on HN says,

Not OC, but the thing with most of these international media articles is I want to read an ft.com article maybe once per year. Tomorrow it's another media with another article. Why would I want a subscription to read one single article?

To which user guerrilla says,

Sounds like you just hit on a business model... multi-subscriptions to news. You could change the world with that.

And I seem to agree with them, Subscription for news is the best way to monetize and for fair reporting, free from the clutches of the advertisers. But a typical news consumer reads news from multiple sources and so subscribing to each one of them is not viable for most.

1 points posted by Abishek Muthian

Weekly review of high profile startup lawsuits #newsletter #legal

Mon, 28 Sep 2020 13:21:00 +0000

I would like weekly updates on high profile startup legal cases and it seems there are others who would like it too.

It's getting hard to track who is suing who, updates on countersuits and legal settlements as lawsuits have become part of the business strategy.

I feel a weekly email news letter would be an appropriate medium for delivering weekly review of high profile startup lawsuits.

3 points posted by Shinzo Reyen

Tracking micro changes related to my career #news #career

Wed, 23 Oct 2019 02:43:00 +0000

Say, I'm a programmer; I would like to know the changes in the new version of a programming language I use, changes in the APIs I use, changes in the technology concerning my area of work.

But it's just not the technology which can affect a career, from economic slowdown to rising sea levels could have an impact on a career. Currently there is no individual solution to connect the dots and watch the micro changes related to one's job.

I would like an app which can take specific inputs about my job description, analyse possible career trajectories and monitor micro changes related to those careers and give appropriate suggestions to pursue.

3 points posted by Yogesh Basu