Those are 5 top headlines from various sources. They may or may not include the top 5 headlines you <i>need</i> to start the day with. To get them, you’d need some work of curation, either by AI or (probably better) by humans.<p>I’d rather suggest one of the countless daily morning newsletters that give you a heads up of what’s going on in the world with links to read more. There are also podcasts that do the same. I can’t suggest anything in English but in Italian there’s the 'Good Morning Italia' newsletter and the 'Morning' podcast from Il Post. The latter does a good job trying to actually explain and give context on the current news rather than just repeating the headlines.
The "Some Facts" panel presents a meta joke by repeating a brain claim:<p><pre><code> Some Facts..
The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terabytes.
The Ramses brand condom is named after the great pharoh Ramses II who fathered over 160 children.
The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terabytes.
</code></pre>
I hope the next refresh will be three claims that a goldfish has a 3-second memory
I've been always quite impressed how well the people who produced the content for the teletext managed to compress the information.<p>Take a look at the current news for example here: <a href="https://yle.fi/aihe/tekstitv?P=194" rel="nofollow">https://yle.fi/aihe/tekstitv?P=194</a><p>That's the opposite of clickbait titles. Actual information communicated in few lines. This is the kind of summary I would like to start my mornings with.
Might be a stupid comment, but United States being first in the dropdown seems like quite a US-centric decision when the site features news sites from around the world. May be better to stick to alphabetical to make it more country agnostic?
This looks more like an RSS reader app for some major news sites tbf.<p>Fyi, there are various "start site" services that let you customize RSS feeds, together with other items like to-do lists, market charts, weather,... considering how many things can be turned into an RSS feed (HN, YT channels, podcasts,...), you've got a pretty well-rounded source of news if you invest a bit of time into the setup, which is actually fun. I've set up a site on start.me five years ago and been using it ever since.
Surprising to see so much negativity here. Limiting to a small number of headlines is a useful mechanic. I can see this going in a number of interesting directions.
Cool site! But, I would very much challenge the premise that the news is the proper thing to start your day with, under normal circumstances. (Obviously, right now is an exception for a lot of people, because of the invasion of Ukraine).
I prefer trying to find news on my own whenever I do. I just try to look around a bit, get different views - even the ones that would rather disgust me and I give up often midway to articles and opinions but that exposure is needed.<p>I try not to equate news with that one truth - it can't be - but rather something towards the truth - or let's just call it "knowing about some event or something in somewhat detail" - and that rather unsavoury exposure often reveals some parts of that perceived truth/knowledge that wouldn't be exposed to me if I didn't read views that are actually exactly opposite to mine, which I can't reconcile with. No one writes absolutely.<p>Also, being from India I do not try to limit myself to the "English only" news sources -- that is one way to read views which are extremely limiting in the sense of being from within an intellectual ghetto for both - Right and Left; and even the Centre. In fact more so for the Left and Centre because the Right had figured out that the vernacular is where the mass is and that's where their propaganda machine attacked almost a decade ago and then won the country in a swift propaganda coup of lies, deceit and misinformation. While the progressive intellectuals kept bickering in English, often among themselves.<p>What I meant is -- we should not try to filter news too much, limit our scope and sources for ideas. It's okay to go to and through a mishmash of sources.<p>And last one 1-2 years has taught me - nothing beats paper sources, even now; print magazines. Online, apps, Twitter, lists and all those shiny gaudy and minimal websites, and what not are just fancy tools to play with or are the refuse for the news obsessed/addicted. Okay, this is taking it a bit too far, but online sources do indeed distract too much and encourages you to scan, rather than absorbing, is too quick, and often leading to endless click/search-athon.
Let me add, 'Daily Rotation' for your consideration.<p>Best thing is that you can choose your reading sources from a large variety, range and interests.<p><a href="https://dailyrotation.com/" rel="nofollow">https://dailyrotation.com/</a>
It would be nice if there was a service that would give one headline per thing going on instead of 100s of different angles. An ideal top 5 headline app would be as follows:<p>1. War in Ukraine still not over, causes massive spike in worldwide commodity prices.<p>2. COVID cases and deaths falling. Covid measures being cancelled in many jurisdictions including yours.<p>3. Something important happening locally. New law passed, etc.<p>4. Most important science news of the day that will impact my life within the next year. No cancer studies that might cure cancer in 20 years. I don't care.<p>5. Most important tech news item of the day.
I have long wanted a <i>layered, hierarchical, curated</i> aggregator for the most the most important news articles.<p>It should be be browsable by region (world - continent - country), by timeframe (year - month - day), by topic (economy, politics, ...) and should group multiple articles for the same event.<p>Right now it's very hard to find info for questions like "what happened in Africa last month", "what changed in Taiwan last year", etc.<p>Unfortunately that would probably require a lot of human curation for now.
FYI if creator is reading: Links to articles on Verge are not working. A new tab opens, but the content is the same justfive.news page. Tried in Chrome/Safari in Mac.
Why? Honestly, who cares? I'd rather have a dashboard of my personal health metrics to start my day with - that way I know how to improve my life and how things are going for me.<p>Just 5 metrics I want to know every day:<p>1. Sleep hours / sleep rating for the previous night (good, ok, bad)<p>2. Projected personal net income this week (total incoming - total outgoing expenses)<p>3. # New users of my SaaS startup<p>4. Project company net income this week (total incoming - total outgoing expenses)<p>5. Birthdays of family / close friends today & this week
Most of the French feeds are actually in English (although from French news agencies). And there's something off about the Twitter panel because half of the feeds are in Japanese.
This presumably should be a Show HN. I think it looks nice, simple.<p>Might be a good idea to deprioritise, or flag the sources requiring subscription, especially where they are not free.
i had a similar that could be added as feature:<p>just 'x' item that you can view but not interact.
for instance screenshot of top x posts from hacker news (not that i mind spending time here), or screenshot of x memes from that reddit sub .. and so on<p>the idea is to keep you from falling down the rabbit hole (doom scrolling or link hopping) and still deliver some value/dopamine
Did you know Wikipedia has a "current events" page? It's surprisingly good, containing only particularly notable events and therefore not constantly updated in real time. Which I think is a positive.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events</a>