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Ask HN: Is there a website with only short summaries of the most important news?

by amin on 3/24/24, 6:52 PM with 9 comments

• by ahazred8ta on 3/24/24, 8:13 PM

  Related: https://text.npr.org/ and https://lite.cnn.com/

• by h2odragon on 3/24/24, 6:59 PM

  lots of them

  mine is: https://snafuhall.com/

  I sit on the banks of the Ganges that is the news; and pick a few interesting chunks out to pile up.

  I try to capture a daily snapshot of the flavor of the news, not "most important".

  Defining "important" is the meta question that leads to all the other news sites existing, too.

  https://spidr.today does a interesting job of gathering and batching stories from RSS feeds, if you want a more statistical approach.

• by accrual on 3/24/24, 9:16 PM

  I like 68knews as it runs on my retro PCs. Nothing like a cup of coffee and reading modern headlines on a 486 PC to start your day. ;)

  http://68k.news/

• by r721 on 3/25/24, 1:24 AM

  Maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events ?

• by jryan49 on 3/26/24, 4:43 PM

  https://sumi.news/ Even has an HN section

• by juliantt on 3/24/24, 8:40 PM

  https://otherweb.com/

• by gardenhedge on 3/25/24, 8:37 AM

  Minimalist news

• by bedits on 3/26/24, 6:08 AM

  Some popular websites for this purpose include:

  1. CNN's daily news show for students that provides brief summaries of global news stories.

  2. BBC's news service for children that offers short and easy-to-understand news summaries.

  3. A newsletter that provides concise summaries of important news stories.

  4. A podcast that gives brief updates on the day's top news stories.

  5. Reuters News in Pictures: A visual news service that offers short captions with images for major news events.