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Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed

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757 points headalgorithm | 2 comments | 05 Feb 25 14:55 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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yakhinvadim ◴[05 Feb 25 17:20 UTC] No.42951867[source]▶
I tried to solve this problem by making AI rank the stories by significance and rewriting the news titles in a boring, factual style.

I think it worked quite well, there's only about 10 headlines a day (out of 15k+) that get a significance rating higher than of 5.5 out of 10.

It also helps avoiding the overfocus on western issues and actually learn what's happening around the world.

https://www.newsminimalist.com/

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1. j_bum ◴[05 Feb 25 17:55 UTC] No.42952431[source]▶
I love the idea of this tool, but there are serious issues with using LLMs to summarize articles and text. Re: Apple’s Notification Summary Debacle

For example, this headline with a score > 5 is flatly incorrect.

“China launches innovative flying robot to explore Moon's south pole for water resources”

Every article listed in the summary says the launch is planned for 2026.

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2. yakhinvadim ◴[05 Feb 25 18:06 UTC] No.42952620[source]▶
Thanks! Good point.

I think there will always be some hallucinations until they're solved on a model level, but I'll also try to nudge AI now to be more precise with the headlines.